Walk:Three Parishes

Start Point Distance/Time Terrain OS Explorer Walk Description Calderbank 12 miles Tracks, fields and This route is waymarked with a red disc 7 Cross the road and take the footpath Country Lodge, roads. Gates and OL41 labelled ‘Calder Vale Walk Red 2’. up the bank into the wood. Ignore the 7 hrs some stiles. Steep ‘ sections and can be first stile and follow the path through SD 538 475 and Ribblesdale’ wet underfoot. 1 Turn left onto the road outside the wood for 200 meters, then the Calderbank Lodge and take the first take stile on left. Turn right and follow road on the right signposted ‘School the fence on the right and over and Church’. N another stile. Note:There is a path on 1 2 Continue on past the turning to the the other side of fence, but this is not Church where the road becomes a a right of way. 23 track. Go through a farm, after the last 8 Take the next stile that leads to a 2 22 building take the first gate on the left. steeply descending path towards the Go straight ahead up the field, staying , follow the path to a 21 right of the old quarry and head for footbridge and the ruins of Gill Barn. 4 the far right corner of the field and Turn right keeping the stream on 3 5 cross a stone stile in the wall. your right. 3 Turn left and follow the fence round to 20 9 The path now widens as it approaches pass through a kissing gate, then cross Waddecar Youth Activity Centre (Scout 18 17 the field to a stile to the right of Rough Camp). Continue through the Centre Moor. Turn right onto the drive, then to the toilet block. right along the road for a short 10 Here the footpath veers away from 16 distance, then left through wall onto a 13 the river and wood for a short way; 19 6 path through a narrow wood. 7 emerging on Snape Rake Lane. 15 4 Cross the field and go right onto the Turn right down the lane and over 12 estate road. Past Tower and the footbridge. 8 turn left at Brooks Barn. 11 Follow the track up to a road 11 9 5 Continue along this track past T junction. 10 Hazelhurst Farm, then through Holme 12 Cross the road and follow Delph Lane House Farm and past Admarsh Barn 14 uphill until you reach a stone wall stile Farm on the right. Continue past on your left. Vicarage Farm to Bleasdale Church and School, turning right after the School. Continued overleaf... 6 Follow the estate road, which is lined by beech hedges, to the first stone gate on the left. Go through the gate and bear right onto Weaver’s Farm and out onto the road. © Crown Copyright.© Crown reserved. All rights 100023320, Licence Council County 2007. 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 0 Km 1 Km www.forestofbowland.com Calder Vale Walk:Three Parishes

Walk Description (continued) About This Walk Sustainable Tourism

13 Go over this stile and cross the fields 19 Turn right and follow the track into This walk passes through the three The Forest of Bowland Area of and through the wood. Come out Calder Vale. On reaching the road at parishes of Bleasdale, Barnacre-with- Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) into a field passing to the right of the Calder Vale turn right past the village Bonds and Claughton-on-Brock. Huds Brook Farm. Continue through shop and post office, to a footpath on is a protected landscape that has several fields until you reach Butt Hill the left to Kelbrick Farm. (Do not Bleasdale is a small privately owned international importance for its farm on your right and then out onto cross the road bridge) estate. Bleasdale Tower was originally heather moorland, blanket bog and Hobbs Lane. 20 Go up through the wood to a kissing a shooting lodge, but in 1847 it was rare birds. In 2005 the AONB became 14 Turn right along this lane and take gate. Turn right and cross the field to rebuilt and enlarged by William James the first protected area in to the first track on your right to the far left hand corner. Keep going Garnett. Garnett was a philanthropist be awarded the European Charter for Cobble Hey Farm. straight ahead, keeping the fence on Sustainable Tourism in Protected your right. Turn left over a stile. and agricultural reformer, as well as 15 Head north from the cobbled yard of Areas, joining just 30 other areas Follow the fence on the left round the an MP for Lancaster 1857-64. Cobble Hey. Just past the farmhouse field and go over a stile on the left. Garnett also set up, on the estate, one across Europe.The Charter is awarded turn right through a gate and go past to protected areas that are delivering the animal pens and children’s play 21 At Kelbrick Farm go round the of the first Reformatory Schools in area to another gate. Continue farmyard and follow the farm track to the country. tourism that is both nature and through the field bearing slightly left of the road. At the road cross to a landscape friendly and which contributes the wall on the right. The field dips by footpath opposite, and follow this During springtime, Cobble Hey is a to the economic development of the a stream where there is a gate, head along the left hand edge of the field to good breeding area for a variety of region.The Charter approach ensures for the gate. a farm track. At the track turn right. wading birds. Birds such as lapwing, that organisations, local people and 16 After the gate, climb the field straight 22 Follow the track, turning left before curlew and redshank all raise their businesses are working together to ahead, keeping the fence on the left, reaching Bank Farm. At the crossing young on the surrounding fields. protect the area, whilst at the same time follow this to and through the next take the track on the right, keeping increasing opportunities for visitors to gate. Follow the fence on the right as the aerial mast and wireless station Calder Vale grew around several it bends round to another gate at the on the left. textile mills, one of which still operates discover and enjoy its special qualities. start of a hedge-lined track. 23 At the road turn left, downhill to a today. The mill is in the centre of the You can contribute to sustainable 17 At the end of the track go through the T- junction, turn right and follow the village and is run by the Lappet tourism by: gates into Higher Landskill farmyard. road the short distance back to Company. They produce cotton Arab Turn left just beyond the farmhouse Calderbank Lodge. headdresses which they export to the • Leaving the car at home and using and follow the farm road towards Middle East. public transport instead Calder Vale until it bends sharp right. On the bend there is a footpath to • Purchasing local products, including the left. food and drink 18 Take this footpath across the field • Making a donation to the Bowland through a kissing gate in a fence near Tourism Environment Fund through the edge of a wood. Continue in the donation boxes at participating same direction across the field, heading downhill to cross a footbridge. businesses in the area