Calder Vale Walk: Three Parishes OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Public Transport Key to Facilities Cobble Hey Farm & Gardens 12 Miles Tracks, Fields and Roads

OS Explorer Calder Vale Walk: Three Parishes OL41 Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Public transport Key to Facilities Cobble Hey Farm & Gardens 12 Miles Tracks, fields and roads. Bus Service 8C service, Post Office, Bus stop Gates and some stiles. SD 536 449 Garstang to Caldervale (Calder Vale) 7 Hrs Steep sections and can be wet underfoot.

GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) N 10 1 SD 536 449 9 2 SD 538 452 3 SD 538 458 8 4 SD 536 457 5 SD 531 452 7 6 SD 532 458 13 12 14 7 SD 530 466 11 8 SD 530 470 9 SD 535 474 6 4 3 10 SD 538 475 11 SD 538 463 12 SD 542 462 2 13 SD 551 463 5 22 15 14 SD 561 463 16 1 15 SD 573 452 16 SD 567 450 21 17 SD 565 445 17 18 18 SD 562 443 20 19 19 SD 560 441 20 SD 552 442 23 21 SD 550 446

This route is waymarked with a red disc a stile. Follow the fence on the left round the 14 GPS: SD 561 463 21 GPS: SD 550 446 labelled ‘Calder Vale Walk Red 2’. field and go over a stile on the left. Continue along this track past Hazelhurst Farm, Cross the road and follow Delph Lane uphill then through Holme House Farm and past 1 7 GPS: SD 530 466 until you reach a stone wall stile on your left. GPS: SD 536 449 Admarsh Barn Farm on the right. Continue At Kelbrick Farm go round the farmyard and 22 Head north from the cobbled yard of Cobble past Vicarage Farm to Bleasdale Church and GPS: SD 547 451 follow the farm track to the road. At the Hey. Just past the farmhouse turn right School, turning right after the School. Go over this stile and cross the fields and through a gate and go past the animal pens road cross to a footpath opposite, and follow through the wood. Come out into a field and children’s play area to another gate. this along the left hand edge of the field to a 15 GPS: SD 573 452 passing to the right of the Huds Brook Farm. Continue through the field bearing slightly left farm track. At the track turn right. Follow the estate road, which is lined by Continue through several fields until you beech hedges, to the first stone gate on the of the wall on the right. The field dips by a 8 GPS: SD 530 470 reach Butt Hill farm on your right and then left. Go through the gate and bear right onto stream where there is a gate, head for the gate. Follow the track, turning left before reaching out onto Hobbs Lane. Weaver’s Farm and out onto the road. 2 GPS: SD 538 452 Bank Farm. At the crossing take the track on 23 GPS: SD 537 440 After the gate, climb the field straight ahead, the right, keeping 16 GPS: SD 567 450 Turn right along this lane and take the first keeping the fence on the left, follow this to the aerial mast and wireless station Cross the road and take the footpath up the track on your right back to Cobble Hey Farm and through the next gate. Follow the fence on the left. bank into the wood. Ignore the first stile and follow the path through the wood for 200 on the right as it bends round to another gate 9 GPS: SD 535 474 About This Walk meters, then the take stile on left. Turn right at the start of a hedge-lined track. At the road turn left, downhill to a and follow the fence on the right and over T- junction. 3 GPS: SD 538 458 another stile. Note: There is a path on the other This walk passes through the three parishes of At the end of the track go through the 10 GPS: SD 538 475 side of fence, but this is not a right of way. Bleasdale, Barnacre-with-Bonds and gates into Higher Landskill farmyard. Turn Turn right and then take the first road on the Claughton-on-Brock. left just beyond the farmhouse and follow the 17 GPS: SD 565 445 right signposted ‘School and Church’. Bleasdale is a small privately owned estate. farm road towards Calder Vale until it bends Take the next stile that leads to a steeply Bleasdale Tower was originally a shooting sharp right. On the bend there is a footpath 11 GPS: SD 538 463 descending path towards the River Brock, lodge, but in 1847 it was rebuilt and enlarged to the left. Continue on past the turning to the Church follow the path to a footbridge and the ruins where the road becomes a track. Go through of Gill Barn. Turn right keeping the stream on by William James Garnett. Garnett was a 4 GPS: SD 536 457 a farm, after the last building take the first gate your right. philanthropist and agricultural reformer, as well Take this footpath across the field through on the left. Go straight ahead up the field, as an MP for Lancaster 1857-64. 18 GPS: SD 562 443 a kissing gate in a fence near the edge of a staying right of the old quarry and head for Garnett also set up, on the estate, one of the The path now widens as it approaches wood. Continue in the same direction across the far right corner of the field and cross a first Reformatory Schools in the country. the field, heading downhill to cross a Waddecar Youth Activity Centre (Scout stone stile in the wall. During springtime, Cobble Hey is a good footbridge. Camp). Continue through the Centre to the 12 GPS: SD 542 462 toilet block. breeding area for a variety of wading birds. 5 GPS: SD 531 452 Turn left and follow the fence round to pass Birds such as lapwing, curlew and redshank all 19 GPS: SD 560 441 Turn right and follow the track into Calder through a kissing gate, then cross the field to a raise their young on the surrounding fields. Here the footpath veers away from the river Vale. On reaching the road at Calder Vale stile to the right of Rough Moor. Turn right and wood for a short way; emerging on Calder Vale grew around several textile mills, turn right past the village shop and post office, onto the drive, then right along the road for a Snape Rake Lane. one of which still operates today. The mill is to a footpath on the left to Kelbrick Farm. short distance, then left through wall onto a Turn right down the lane and over in the centre of the village and is run by the (Do not cross the road bridge) path through a narrow wood. the footbridge. Lappet Company. They produce cotton 6 GPS: SD 532 458 13 GPS: SD 551 463 Arab headdresses which they export to the 20 GPS: SD 552 442 Go up through the wood to a kissing gate. Cross the field and go right onto the estate Middle East. Follow the track up to a road T junction. Turn right and cross the field to the far left road. Past Bleasdale Tower and turn left at hand corner. 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