Langden Castle

which we passed on our run up over Totridge Fell in the Trough of Bowland. Doesn't really live up to its name - not much more than a ruin today, but what history lies here. An old stopping place on the Whalley-Lancaster road, dating back to mediaeval times, not too far from the old Brennand chapel which Abbot Lyndeley of Whalley Abbey had reported already lost in the middle of the fourteenth century. Langden Castle once held prisoners on the way to the Assizes at Lancaster, perhaps the Lancashire Witches stayed overnight here : )