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Some B&Bs were in there more or less from the beginning and became legends among regular trailwalkers. Chris Sainty, former chairman of the Pennine Way Association, is one of many who remembers Ethel Burnop, of Woodhead Farm in Lothersdale, with particular fondness. ‘She was one of the early B&B providers and I remember Tom Stephenson used to drop in if he was in the area,’ he said. ‘It was a working farm in those days and very basic, but you always got a fantastic greeting and a cup of tea with lashings of cake. Her breakfasts were enough to keep you going all day and she never turned anyone away. She loved what she called her “Pennine Highwaymen”. They were her family.’

Teacher and guidebook writer Alan Binns also recalled how the Burnops were always kind and welcoming to his groups of schoolboys on their Pennine Way walks in the 1960s and 70s, never once refusing anyone shelter. The record, he believes, was probably set in July 1968, when on just one night there were 26 walkers inside the farm and 46 tents in the field outside.