Walking on the West Pennine Moors. Terry Marsh

      

      About the Author

      Terry Marsh is an award-winning writer and photographer specialising in the outdoors and travel, and has authored or co-authored more than 60 travel or walking guidebooks. He lives in Chorley, Lancashire, on the western edge of the West Pennine Moors, which he has explored and written about extensively. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and from 1993 until 2009 was Secretary of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild. He holds a Master of Arts degree with Distinction in Lake District Studies.

      Other Cicerone guides by the author

      A Northern Coast to Coast Walk

      Geocaching in the UK

      Great Mountain Days in Snowdonia

      Great Mountain Days in the Pennines

      The Dales Way

      The Isle of Man

      The Isle of Mull

      The Isle of Skye

      The West Highland Way

      Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle

      WALKING ON THE WEST PENNINE MOORS

      by

      Terry Marsh

      2 POLICE SQUARE, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA LA7 7PY

      www.cicerone.co.uk

      © Terry Marsh 2009

      First edition 2009, reprinted (with updates) 2013

      ISBN: 978 1 85284 580 3

      Printed by Drukarnia Legra, Krakόw

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

      

This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey® with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. © Crown copyright 2013. All rights reserved. Licence number PU100012932

      This book is dedicated to the memory of my dad,

      John Marsh (1921–2009),

      who died peacefully during the course of the book’s preparation.

      Advice to Readers

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      Front cover: Dovecote, Rivington (Walks 2 and 3)

      CONTENTS

       INTRODUCTION

       Geography and Natural History

       Human Influence

       Introducing the Valleys

       Walking Safely

       Using this Guide

       RIVINGTON AND ANGLEZARKE

       Walk 1 Around Anglezarke Reservoir

       Walk 2 Rivington Moor and Winter Hill

       Walk 3 Wilderswood and the edge of Rivington Moor

       Walk 4 Rivington Pike

       Walk 5 Rivington Country Park

       Walk 6 Great Hill and Spitler’s Edge

       Walk 7 Noon Hill Slack

       Walk 8 Around Yarrow Reservoir

       Walk 9 Lead Mines Clough and Jepson’s Gate

       Walk 10 Healey Nab and Limbrick

       Walk 11 Withnell Moor

       Walk 12 Wheelton Moor

       RODDLESWORTH AND DARWEN

       Walk 13 Tockholes and Darwen Tower

       Walk 14 Darwen Tower via Sunnyhurst Wood

       Walk 15 Roddlesworth Woodlands and Reservoirs

       Walk 16 Belmont Reservoir and Spitler’s Edge

       Walk 17 Sunnyhurst Wood

       TURTON AND ENTWISTLE

       Walk 18 Turton Moor

       Walk 19 Turton and Entwistle Reservoir

       Walk 20 Around Jumbles Reservoir

       Walk 21 Around Wayoh

       Walk 22 The Three Reservoirs and Turton Tower

       Walk 23 Longworth Clough and Turton Heights

       Walk 24 Cheetham Close

       RAMSBOTTOM, HODDLESDEN AND HASLINGDEN GRANE

       Walk 25 Calf Hey and Ogden Reservoirs

       Walk 26 Haslingden Grane

       Walk 27 Jumbles and Two Brooks Valley

       Walk 28 Holcombe Moor and Peel Monument

       Walk 29 Around Alden Brook

       Walk 30 Irwell Valley

       APPENDIX 1 Route Summary Table

       APPENDIX 2 Further Reading