Pendle Hill Witches Cottage

A stunning cottage once home to two of the famous pendle hill witches hanged 400 years ago has gone on the market for 675 000.

Pendle hill witches cottage. Historians claimed the site was possibly a pendle witch s house because of a cat skeleton they d found sealed up in one. The twelve accused lived in the area surrounding pendle hill in lancashire and were charged with the murders of ten people by the use of witchcraft all but two were tried at lancaster assizes on 18 19 august 1612 along with the samlesbury. The cottage sits on three acres of land at the foot of pendle hill on the edge of the quaint village of higham.

The pendle witches famous in witch lore are in the news this week because a partially intact seventeenth century cottage was found under a pile of rubble in the village of barley near pendle hill. The ruins of a presumed witches cottage were found in 2011. Catholics and those suspected of witchcraft came under more scrutiny than ever and the king brought in the death penalty for those found guilty of witchcraft.

Barry mccann looks at lancashire s tutankhamen s tomb a supposed witches cottage near pendle hill that had been buried for unknown reasons at the time it was declared lancashire s tutankhamen s tomb and its discovery could not have been timelier. The protestant king james i had just survived the catholic gunpowder plot. Cottage owned by two of the pendle hill witches hanged in 1612 is on sale for 675 000 including a hidden staircase and outside jacuzzi west close farm was the home of anne.

The pendle witches lived in the early 1600 s at a time of religious persecution and superstition. The current owners bought the property 13 years ago and have spent 60 000 renovating the cottage in keeping with the original style. Archaeological dig at the foot of pendle uncovering allegedly a witches cottage.

One of the most infamous witch trials in england is known as the pendle witch trials. West close farm was occupied by anne redferne and her mum anne. A cat had been entombed in one of the brick walls and its intact skeleton not mummy as some news accounts have it was found when the ruin was investigated by archaeologists.

Proud in pendle barley newchurch and pendle hill duration. Archaeologists brought in by united utilities to survey the area found the.