Rings of Time

On the original Pendle Sculpture Trail at Barley the Lead Artist, Philippe Handford, has designed artwork called “The Rings of Time”. Look up into the trees…….what dates can you see? The answers are:

1324 - Barley 'Barlegh' appears

1507 - Pendle Forest deforested by Henry V11

1612 - Local 'witches' taken to Lancaster Castle

1652 - George Fox 

1661 - Richard Towneley's barometric readings on Pendle Hill

1750 - first Inghamite church in Fence

1894 - Black Moss reservoir built

1912 - Clarion House built

1918 - war memorial in Barley

1935 - Aitken Wood planted

1938 - Whitehough established

1945 - end of WW2 and losses from Barley

1987 - The Pendleway created

2012 - Sculpture trail started

2018 - second phase of the trail

There are 16 discs with dates and one with the symbol for 'Time'

One of the blank discs is for when time began and an empty ring for infinity.

A further blank disc denotes the future.