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Discussion Forum - Long Distance Paths - Earby Hostel


Author: Allan G H Gould
Posted: Thu 2nd May 2019, 16:37
Joined: 1992
Local Group: Nidderdale
type for veneral read venerable ..... :-)
Author: Allan G H Gould
Posted: Thu 2nd May 2019, 16:37
Joined: 1992
Local Group: Nidderdale
Item in the veneral local rag a couple of weeks ago:
https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/17583870.earby-hostel-celebrates-re-opening-with-easter-open-day/
Author: Iain Connell
Posted: Thu 25th Apr 2019, 20:59
Joined: 2010
Local Group: East Lancashire
It's a small hostel, not quite on the Pennine Way as the new website (earbyhostel.co.uk) says, but there's a handy painted arrow (which I expect will go on saying 'YHA') off the PW about a mile and a half away. The Pennine Bridleway runs about a mile south of Earby centre. The back entrance to the hostel is a garden gate, via a small right of way off the main track from the PW. I stayed there several times about twelve and a half years ago, when there was a regular clientele plus a few PW passers-through. It was then slightly shabby but cosy except for one room which was preserved as it was when Katherine Glasier lived there up to the end of the 1940s. In 2016 ownership was transferred from Pendle Council (who since 2006 had rented it to the YHA) to Earby Town Council. Now it's been renovated by Matt Oddy and his family, and, from the website, looks very nice indeed. The garden had been maintained by the Friends of the hostel; the website's photos now show its Wild Gardens.

The pub down the lane used to be good, but I haven't been for some years. Earby just about survives as a small town, in 'parternship' with Barnoldswick a few miles away (several cross-field paths between the two). It used to be in Yorkshire, and the Skipton weekly newspaper still has a couple of pages of Earby news. If the Colne to Skipton railway 'missing link' is re-opened it will have a direct connection from Manchester; at the moment the trackway is a raised cycle route and dog-walker path which has somehow has escaped development.

Good to see the old place having a new lease of life.

Iain
Author: Tony Willey
Posted: Thu 25th Apr 2019, 19:13
Joined: 1989
Local Group: Lakeland
The small hostel in Earby near Barnoldswick was closed by the YHA a few years ago, but has been bought by the local council and refurbished. It reopened as an independent hostel on 1st April.
It’s a smashing little place and only about a mile from both the Pennine Way and Pennine Bridleway.
Highly recommended.

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