The Pepper Pot
March 11, 2008
Any visitor to Eaves Wood must aim to reach the highest point, Castlebarrow, which is over 250 feet above sea level…. Here a circular stone tower some twenty feet high has been erected. It forms a well known local landmark called, somewhat irreverently, the ‘Pepper Box’ originally and now the ‘Pepper Pot’. It was built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne by a Mr Bowskill, a local man…
from In and Around Silverdale by David Peter
We can see the Pepper Pot from one of our attic windows. If I take a direct route and go on my own, I can walk there in about 15 minutes.
Castlebarrow is a small even by the standard of the areas very modest hills. Never the less it commands a very extensive view, of Silverdale, of Warton Crag, of the Nuclear Power Station down the coast at Heysham, Lancaster and the Ashton Memorial, Clougha Pike and the Bowland Fells and if you stand in the right spot and the weather is clear of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales.
Sometimes you can see the Tower at Blackpool.
On a couple of particularly clear evenings last September me and my dad could see the mountains of North Wales from here and watched as the lights came on along the Welsh coast.
March 30, 2008 at 12:30 am
[...] when I went looking for it in January. Since it was a lovely sunny morning I opted pop up to the Pepper Pot first. Although we had missed the dawn chorus by quite a margin the birds were still in pretty full [...]
April 6, 2008 at 10:36 pm
[...] breakfast we all got out for a family stroll up to the Pepper Pot. Amy and Ben went up in double quick time. Dad had to take his time because of his angina and [...]
June 5, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Is the Pepper Pot easy to find. I’m thinking of taking a group of kids there shortly and wanted them to find their own way. Unfortunately it’s not pin-pointed on the OS map.
June 5, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I think that Eaves Wood is generally a good safe place to take kids. However, navigation can be awkward. There are lots of paths most of which are not on the map. I know of people who have had a very pleasant couple of hours in the wood, but have never managed to find the Pepper Pot. There is a waymarked route from the car-park. There have been a couple of Orienteering events in the wood. The maps produced for those would be much more detailed. I don’t know who organised them, but i would guess that it was South Ribble Orienteering Club http://www.sroc.org/. Whether they could supply maps I don’t know.
June 8, 2008 at 11:18 pm
[...] started in Eaves Wood, climbing to the Pepper Pot in the environs of which we found lots of wild [...]
October 2, 2008 at 10:57 pm
[...] my walk home from work followed a circuitous route along The Row and then through Eaves Wood to the Pepper Pot. Although I was in the woods for much of the walk, the best autumn colour was in the roadside [...]
January 14, 2009 at 12:00 am
[...] limit of human hearing every two minutes, I escaped for half an hour for a brisk outing to the Pepper Pot. Faced with louring grey skies and persistent drizzle, I decided to leave the camera at home, put [...]