Bowland Transit is the name of an integrated transport project serving the Forest of Bowland in the Ribble Valley. To celebrate the first anniversary of the project it hosted a writer-in-residence project for eight months during 2004. Writer Maureen Fenton travelled throughout the area on the Bowland buses, seeing the landscape through the eyes of the other passengers and encouraging them to write about their surroundings and their life in Bowland. Her intention was to “celebrate the natural beauty, the people and the rural heritage of Bowland.”
As part of the project, a short story and poem competition was held for schoolchildren and the results were published in a 40-page colour booklet.
