OS Explorer The Three Fishes and the OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Public transport About This Walk The Three Fishes Route A: 3 miles – 1.5 hours Roads, tracks and fields. Bus Service: C25 to Nestling on a limestone rise Gates and some stiles. (Mon to Fri) SD 7145 3901 Route B: 1.5 miles – 45 mins above the River Ribble, the tiny hamlet of Mitton was described Key to Facilities by Victorian travel writer, The Three Fishes Inn William Howitt as “one of the N most perfect nooks of the world. One of the places that GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) stand as they stood ages ago”. Route A To this day, the appearance of 6 the picturesque village of 1 SD 7145 3901 5 Mitton has hardly changed. 2 SD 7242 3808 4 4 At its heart is All Hallows, one 3 SD 7276 3863 7 of ’s finest mediaeval 4 SD 7310 3945 churches. This 13th century place of worship features the 5 SD 7298 3955 1 Shireburn Chapel, with its 6 SD 7259 3963 family effigies sculpted by 7 SD 7232 3933 William Stanton. 3 8 SD 7169 3866 Route A passes through 8 2 3 Standen Hey community woodland which comprises Route B 55 acres of native broadleaf 1 SD 7145 9301 trees. A total of 23,000 trees were planted on farmland in 2 SD 7169 3866 2003 with the help of school 3 SD 7210 3884 children in Barrow. 2 4 SD 7248 3946 The woodland is managed by the farm and includes a network of grassy rides for informal recreation. © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2010) © Copyright. Crown 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 0 Km 1 Km The Three Fishes and the River Ribble About the Three Fishes Walk Description

Route A 5 GPS: SD 7298 3955 Route B Bear right across the fields to the 1 GPS: SD 7145 3901 1 GPS: SD 7145 9301 tree-line then follow the path down Turn right out of the pub car park and Turn right out of the pub car park the right edge of the field through a follow the road down over the River and follow the road down over the few gates to Fishes and Peggy Hill Since re-opening in September 2004, Ribble, past Mitton Hall Hotel and River Ribble. the Fishes has already picked up the Farm. This will bring you out onto a farm for approx 1 mile. 2 GPS: SD 7169 3866 cream of Britain’s awards. Accolades private road where you turn left. 2 GPS: SD 7242 3808 Just after the Aspinall Arms pub on earned, in no small part, thanks to the 6 GPS: SD 7259 3963 When the road bends to the right, your left take a public footpath menu inspired by Nigel Haworth, Chef As you approach Shuttleworth Farm look for a footpath going off to the left through a kissing gate way marked the Patron of nearby , an take the kissing gate to the right of (opposite a track). This takes you ‘’. Keep to the left then at internationally renowned restaurant in the main farm gates (way marked through a copse and over a small the top left corner of the field go over its own right and an associate ‘Ribble Way’) and continue via a footbridge then through open fields a stile and continue along the left of company of Inns. second kissing gate and a gate, on a (keep to the left edge of the field) to a the field to a kissing gate. track that runs alongside the river. Bowland Tourism Environment Fund stone cross base (Hardhill Cross) where You will pass an aqueduct carrying the 3 GPS: SD 7210 3884 you join the line of a roman road. Bowland Tourism Environment Fund piped water supply from Haweswater, Through the kissing gate, across the (BTEF) is a social enterprise charity, 3 GPS: SD 7276 3863 then come to a weir and flow field and over a footbridge then walk established to encourage tourism Walk on a little way from the cross measurement station. diagonally across this field to reach the businesses, visitors, local communities and through a kissing gate into river bank. 7 GPS: SD 7232 3933 and groups to work together in caring Standen Hey Community Woodland Take a diagonal route away from the 4 GPS: SD 7248 3946 for the landscape. where you are welcome to wander river across a field then over a small You can continue a little way along the It raises funds from visitor donations, and picnic. Just before the railway footbridge. Across the next field and river bank and then re-trace your pay-back schemes and other sources. crossing bear left and continue then keep right over two more fields steps to return to the Three Fishes. BTEF then provides funds for small through the woodland along a all the way back to Mitton. local projects, which will benefit both tussocky ride. visitors and the local environment. 8 GPS: SD 7169 3866 4 GPS: SD 7310 3945 The Three Fishes Inn are supporting When you reach the road next to the You will emerge from the woodland BTEF by adding 20p on a cover, this Aspinall Arms, turn right and follow with a railway bridge on your right will provide a new ‘Tramper’ all-terrain the road back to the Three Fishes. onto a footpath, turn left away from scooter so that those with limited the railway and exit the woodland mobility can also enjoy the countryside over a stile. of the Forest of Bowland AONB. www.forestofbowland.com