I took a hop-on, hop-off bus through a spectacularly underrated English landscape

I took a hop-on, hop-off bus through a spectacularly underrated English landscape

It’s eight o’clock, school bus time, and the number 11 is going back to nature, taking me with it. Launched two years ago in part to counter the wider decline of rural bus services, this inter-town service links Clitheroe – which has an hourly train from Manchester – to some of the least discovered countryside in the North of England: the Forest of Bowland. We soon leave behind the market town, cross ancient Edisford Bridge and gradually the lan…