Gawthorpe Hall is a fascinating Elizabethian house in Padiham 20 minutes drive from Trawden. The house is a National trust property and houses the Kay Shuttleworth emboidery collection. The house is furnished with period pieces and portaits on loan from the National Portrait gallery.
Gawthorpe is the setting for the new novel by Stacey Halls the Familars a story of life in the time of James I and the Lancashire witch trials. There are gardens to walk in and enjoy a picnic