19 – 21 Sept 2014
Clitheroe

The HFBG 2014 Annual Conference is to be held in Lancashire on the weekend of 19th to 21st September 2014. It will be based in the pastoral Ribble valley around the market town of Clitheroe, with an excursion to the coastal plain.

The programme will combine lectures and visits, showing how Lancashire farmers seized the opportunities presented by the increasing urbanisation of the historic county from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The supply of fresh milk, vegetables and potatoes became the mainstay of the region.

The county is noted for high quality stone buildings, and brick is well represented in the lowlands. Timber framing was formerly widespread and we shall visit both cruck and aisled barns.

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