A thin neck joins Parlick onto Fair Snape Fell with well-worn paths linking the two.

Parlick is a popular venue for foot-launched gliders,[2] because it produces good ridge lift in an unusually wide variety of wind directions.

Local pilots use this arena for club competitions, such as the 'Parlick Grid Challenge' [4] The summit consists of little more than a cairn, leaving the walker to look at the view, south to Preston and Winter Hill near Chorley, east toward Pendle Hill, and west towards Blackpool and the Irish Sea.

"Parlick Fell" is the name of a cheese made in Longridge from sheep's milk from the area.

[5] The hill and its environs are the location of the legend of the enormous Dun Cow, which was reputed to wander freely across the moorland, and to be in the habit of quenching its thirst at "Nick's Water-Pot", a well on the summit of Parlick.