Complex sentence: Apart from Quernmore itself, the parish also includes Brow Top, once a local crafts mecca, now merely a cluster of barn conversions, like a last outpost of civilisation before the Trough of Bowland.
Split into simpler sentences: Apart from Quernmore itself the parish also includes Brow Top, once local crafts mecca, now mearly a cluster of barn conversions. Like a last outpost of civilisation before the Trough of Bowland.