Introduction
This is an area I don’t know at all. It’s name suggests plenty of trees, but the map doesn’t!
Intrigued, I set off for Lancashire.
It’s a 50 minute drive from Cheadle Hulme, via M60 and M66.
The weather was stunning – clear, sunny, calm and not too cold.
The walk is 7 miles with 900feet of ascent.
It took 3 hours 15 minutes plus 15 minutes for lunch.
This walk is over rough pasture with lots of sheep and horses, so not really suitable for dog walkers.
I walked in a clockwise direction.
The walk is on OS Explorer Map OL21.
I parked in Lumb, just past Rossendale Old Church, postcode BB4 9PQ. There’s plenty of on street parking on Peers Clough Road. where the walk starts, What 3 Words ///headlight,annotated.dugouts
Lumb
Peers Clough Road is on The Pennine Bridleway, and runs alongside a babbling brook, which looks awfully prone to flooding, though there was no sign of any.
The road soon becomes a track, and as it rises, so I was surprised by the presence of snow which made underfoot conditions quite difficult.
Continuing on the track, conditions in the gully through which the track progressed, got even snowier.
Rossendale Way
I left The Pennine Bridleway, and joined The Rossendale Way, After crossing the B-road the path crosses Whjtewell Brook.
Briefly, there are views across to Clough Bottom Reservoir, where there are some trees….. but hardly a forest!
By now, I had worked out that this is actually quite a barren area of scrubby grass pasture, and not much else.
The random freight containers were the most interesting thing. The pino is in desperate need of repair!
Long Dyke
I hoped this path would be more interesting. To be honest it wasn’t. It wasn’t much of a path, and involved following a straight wall! Still I enjoyed the sunshine, and negotiating the snow and boggy conditions beneath.
Surely, the trig point at the end would offer up some good views? Not really, and it was quite camouflaged, in a fairly flat area!
Back To Lumb
Oh well, it was downhill from here. There was little demarcation of the route, and I was glad of the GPS to keep on track as I worked through more boggy ground. There was a slight breeze now, so this wind generator was whirring away.
Lumb was now back in sight as I made may way over the fields, with sheep for company.
I usually choose new walks in a random way by opening up the OS map and seeing what looks interesting. It’s usually quite successful, but I have to say this was pretty dull, saved by the amazing weather!
And Finally….
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