RETURN ROUTE Baxenden to Accrington Station Ride down Alliance Street and follow Causeway Accrington Accrington Station to the track up a short climb to the site of Baxenden (Woodnook the old railway line. This is the start of Greenway) the Woodnook Greenway. Simply Follow the shared follow this for the next 3km, on it’s foot/cycle path past the gradual descent towards Accrington. At the end, cross straight over the road and cross Globe Centre, which Scaitcliffe Lake on a new causeway, the piers of which used to be one of the used to carry the railway line. Come out in front of the largest textile machinery Globe Centre and with a skate park to your right. Cross ROUTE INFORMATION factories in the world, to a mini roundabout. There is a over the road and onto the shared foot/cycle path along Starting from Great Harwood town centre skate park on the left. Cross the road and take the path Scaitcliffe Street. Join path alongside the railway. (Clock Tower). going down to the lake. Cross the lake on a causeway. The piers used to carry an old railway across the lake. Accrington Station to Rishton Great Harwood to Leeds-Liverpool Follow the path alongside the railway Canal (railway Path) From the lake follow Woodnook Greenway, a for approx 1km. Turn right into the Starting from Clock Tower go down converted old railway track. It has a good firm, subway passing under the railway line Queen St and turn 3rd right down non-tarmac surface. Cross a road and then simply follow and then left on a new cycle path Clayton St. Continue across St it all the way to the end (approx 3km). It passes through alongside a new housing estate. This brings you up to a Hubert’s Rd to the end of the road lovely mixed broadleaf woods and sections of open traffic light junction. Cross using the shared foot/cycle onto the green, grown over the site of a former country. Your legs will notice this peaceful, traffic-free path and then turn left into Edward St (there are NCN railway line. delight has a gradual climb. signs at each of the turnings). Go all the way to the end of this residential street (passing a church on your right) Turn right onto the tarmac path running the length of At the end, to get the main road follow a track on the and up to a bridge over the canal with a great view the green (this is a shared-use path). Follow all the north of some fishing lakes onto Alliance Street. across open countryside. way past the end of the green (where © Crown Copyright LCC Licence 100023320 it passes a cemetery to your right) Canal towpath Church to Clayton and continue through a cutting to le Moors open ground, looking towards If you wish to walk to Blackburn. Great Clayton-le-Moors or beyond, you Harwood can simply turn right here and P WC When you reach the corner with the follow the canal towpath. open ground in front of you, turn left Whitebirk It is hoped to improve the surface (there is a signpost to Rishton) and go of the towpath in the future. down to the canal, reaching it by a Blackburn l ana Clayton-le- l C Huncoat bridge just before some houses. iverpoo To continue towards Rishton - L Moors L s eed Rishton Simply cross over the canal and Rishton to P WC carry on straight along the newly Blackburn via canal M65 A680 tarmaced track which leads up to You can continue to another section of the canal. Turn Blackburn Town right onto the towpath and ride Centre on a traffic gently along into the centre of Church free route alongside Accrington Rishton, with great views to Pendle, the canal - it has a good tarmac P WC Hambledon Hill and the towns in surface. It is also great way of beating Water Park between. Globe the traffic and getting to work at Oswaldtwistle Centre Whitebirk or Blackburn P WC Rishton to Great Oswaldtwistle Mills Harwood Haworth Canal To Rishton Gallery You can exit the To continue into canal in Rishton Rishton, simply turn or continue for left and follow the Woodnook Greenway another 500m to towpath until the bridge number next bridge. 108. Turn right Enjoy the great views to your left to off the canal and Pendle Hill and Hambledon Hill; with Baxenden Great Harwood follow the track a helpful interpretation board “Mills & across open ground heading Hills” on the path. To stop in Rishton, towards a pylon. (To ride to simply exit the canal at next bridge and you’ll find WHAT TO SEE / PLACES OF INTEREST Blackburn, simply stay on the canal and continue for yourself in the centre of the town. • Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington. Just off the another 3km approx). Greenway, this Edwardian mansion is set in nine acres Rishton to Church and Accrington of parkland. It also has a tearoom. Open afternoons At the corner of this field, turn right and follow the Continue to follow the canal from Wed-Sun. (Tel 01254 233782) track through a cutting and onto a green, passing a towpath as it passes above the cemetery then rows of terrace houses to your left. motorway. Then another 200m • Accrington Water Park. A old mill lake on the fringes further on take the new track to of Accrington Town Centre with a unique causeway Turn left at the second lane you cross and follow the left (It is signed “Hyndburn Greenway, NCN6, crossing. this road (Clayton St) straight into the centre of Accrington 2”). Follow this down and up a little dip on Great Harwood, coming out on Queen St in front of a surfaced track to reach a bridge over another part • Oswaldtwistle Mills. A large mill factory shop, craft the Co-op. of the canal. Cross straight over and follow the road centre and cafe plus grounds and a wildfowl reserve. ahead into a residential area. Continue along the road Children’s donkey rides and other family events in the (Church St) as it bears right through Church village summer. (Tel 01254 871025). up to a t-junction at the end. Near Rishton Near Baxenden Shoe Mill Woodnook Greenway Turn right on a shared path and then cross the road at the traffic lights to a cycle path alongside a new housing estate. At the end of the path go right under the railway and then turn left on to a cycle path going up beside the railway line. Turn right for Church and Oswaldtwistle Station. Follow the path for approx 1km, until turning off to the right onto a path alongside Scaitcliffe Street (this is just after crossing a road bridge). Accrington Station is just ahead on the cycletrack..