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SUGGESTED START: Sabden car park, off Padiham Road, WHAT TO EXPECT: Starting in Sabden, this scenic route heads route. the trialling and developing in support

opposite White Hart pub (SD 7793 3737) uphill out of the village towards Churn Clough reservoir and for Utilities United and Armstrong Duncan Cartwirght, Ian Council, Ratten Clough. The route then winds through farmland to return Parish Sabden Partnership, Landscape Hill Pendle to and Together

DISTANCE: 9.2 km / 5.7 miles into Sabden. Fantastic views can be enjoyed from much of the Life Ribble supporting for Fund Heritage Lottery National the To

TIME: 2 hrs 30 mins (plus sightseeing) route due to the elevated situation. There are numerous stiles

on this route, it is therefore best suited to walkers with good you! Thank

TERRAIN: Mostly bridleway and well maintained paths. Some

mobility. Terrain underfoot is generally good and includes a iPhone. and Android on route

steep climbs.

app. to accompany this this accompany to app. Life Ribble mixture of fields, farm tracks and quiet lanes. Expect some uphill the Download

www.ribblelifetogether.org DIFFICULTY: Moderate walking on leaving Sabden village. Please be aware of traffic on visit or more the sections of country lanes. Livestock are present in some of out find to code QR the Scan project. Together Life

OS MAP: OS Landranger Map 103

the fields on this route. Please keep dogs on a lead. If cattle get Ribble the for routes circular of series a of part as

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64 (Burnley - Clitheroe) LOOK OUT FOR: (see points on the map) users other and wildlife consider Code: Countryside the Follow •

1. Fish pass on Sabden Brook, drinks and food spare Carry

Sabden •

installed by Ribble Rivers Trust as part of

compass and map kit, aid first phone, mobile charged a Take

Sabden car park (pay and display) the Ribble Life Together programme. The fish pass •

conditions forecast for suitable clothing and boots sturdy Wear

weir predates the neighbouring Victoria •

Mill, and was built for Lower Sabden

safely Enjoy

Printworks, opposite Spring Lodge on

Sabden car park

Whalley Road. Having been redundant for Catchment Ribble The

Sabden - Pendle - Sabden ’: Walk s ’ Let ’ Council County Lancashire

a number of decades, the weir was •

AONB) Bowland of (Forest Trail Family Valley Sabden

restricting the natural migration of fish •

Shippeys Stores, Village News, Sabden Post Office,

species such as salmon and trout. Boulders have been set into

Lyden-Braund the existing flat face of the weir to funnel the flow of water into a trails Nearby zig-zag channel, creating a greater depth of water for fish to

swim up. The works have given Sabden Brook’s fish access to a

The White Hart, Pendle Witch generations.

further 7km of habitat upstream of the old weir.

based on science, we aim to leave a positive legacy for future future for legacy positive a leave to aim we science, on based

action, environmental practical Through educate. and inspire

Sanwitches 2. The ‘Deerstones’ are not visible on this route, but can be to river the using and access improving rivers, the of heritage the

visited via a detour at Churn Clough Reservoir. This frost-affected celebrates project The wildlife. and people for 2020 by system

is working to create a healthier river river healthier a create to working is area from the Ice Age is home to numerous large millstone grit Together Life Ribble

THE RIVERS: Sabden Brook has been an important part of boulders which supposedly show the Devil’s footprints. It is said Sabden’s history, enabling the textile industry in the village. that he carried stones in his apron as he leapt from Hambledon Sabden weir was an old stone-built weir on Sabden Brook Hill to Pendle. The feature is known locally as the ‘Devil’s footprints’. which originally supplied water for the Sabden Printworks. It Churn may also have provided water to an earlier cotton mill in the Clough late 18th century. Sabden Brook feeds into the River Calder, 3. Churn Clough Reservoir was Reservoir River Walks which then feeds into the Ribble. The Calder Catchment is constructed in 1892 to supply the characterised by mill towns such as Burnley, Nelson, Colne and growing population of East Lancashire. Accrington, which were at the forefront of the Industrial Before this time, mains water was Sabden Revolution. Rivers were crucial for supplying water to the supplied to Sabden from a reservoir fed various industries and as a result, became heavily modified by a spring located just below Black Hill. with the construction of weirs, sluices and mill races. The industries have since declined and most mills have been demolished, but the in-river structures that have been left behind continue to damage the riverine ecology. The fish 4. On leaving Ratten Clough Farm, you will This route celebrates the agricultural and passage project on Sabden brook has opened up new habitat pass a section of vaccary wall, a feature industrial heritage of the village of for migrating fish upstream of Sabden, meaning that salmon quite common to this area. Some of the walls Sabden, part of the detached Forest of are thought to date back to the 13th century. could return to Pendle Hill in years to come. Pendle section of the Forest of Bowland Vaccaries were islands of cultivated land Vaccary AONB. Sabden was a successful farming enclosed by flat stones to keep cattle in, within community from the 13th century and wall the extensive open hunting forest of Pendle. WILDLIFE: The upland fields ‘Vacca’ comes from the Latin name for cow. supplied meat, wool and milk to the lend themselves to Lapwing nearby settlements. The introduction of spotting wildlife such as mills to the village in the late 1700s meant hares and buzzards. Numerous 5. Dean Farm is one of Sabden’s original vaccaries (see point 4). that fabric printing and cotton weaving species of bird can be seen around The farm was built in 1574 and belonged to the family of Sir took over as the prominent industries. By Jonas Moore. Esteemed mathematician, Churn Clough reservoir. The wetland 1806 the Sabden textile industry habitat near The Old House supports a astronomer and cartographer, Sir Jonas Moore Dean Farm was nicknamed the ’Father of Time’ and employed almost 2000 workers. Sabden variety of wildlife such as snipe, teal and inscription mallards and many seasonal was crucial in establishing Greenwich Brook played an important role in visitors. Keep an eye out for lapwings Mean Time and the Greenwich Meridian. enabling industry in the village. near Dean Farm; this once common The Latin inscription carved above the farmland bird has suffered significant mullion windows at Dean Farm means: “This house was builded by Hugh More son declines in recent decades and is now of Chrestover More eldest brother son of a Red List species. Once back in Distance: 9.2 km / 5.7 miles Hare Leis Hugh wife in the year of our Lord 1574.” Sabden, look out for dippers on the Hugh More was the grandfather of Jonas Moore. brook. Difficulty: Moderate

Go through the wooden gate and head towards the At the top right-hand corner of the field, go through the ROUTE DIRECTIONS E. Vaccary Walls Thefootbridge. changing Follow face the of path the towards River Ribble’s mouth wooden kissing gate. Continue straight uphill between the dry Once out of the farmyard, follow the track, crossing over Thethe channel wooden’s coursestile. has changed greatly, through both stone wall and fence until you reach the metal gate. Walk natural and human processes. It is an accreting (growing) a cattle grid. You will see the vaccary walls on your right straight towards the next gate and (see point 4). Follow the track until you reach a house coast as more sediment is building up than wearing away. A. Alongside Sabden Brook H. Towards Dean Farm go through the wooden kissing gate. (Stainscomb) and on the sharp right-hand bend, bear left Head to the south-west corner of the car park (near recycling Once over the stile, head straight Continue heading uphill, following down the field along the fence line. Take the small In the C19th, the Port of Preston was constructed to trade bins) and take the small gravel path. At the bottom of the across the field, aiming for the black & steps, turn left onto the path and follow the brook. Take the the well-trodden path until you wooden gate in the fence. Head diagonally right on the and transport goods, including those used in the textile industry.white post The in build the- updistance. of silt and Go sandover posedthe a challenge. So, footbridge over the brook and turn right, keeping the brook reach the wooden fingerpost. trodden path which will lead you down to a wooden stile. tostile. enable Keep sea the vessels fence to to navigate your right to the and docks, the River on your right. The path will bring you out on Watt Street. Once over the stile, step across the stream. Once out of Ribblehead wastowards dredged. the stileThis inresulted the fence. in a deeper, narrowerTo Dean and Carefully cross straight over the woodland, head diagonally right towards the top of straighterHead diagonally river channel. left across Training the walls field, were also Farm towards the bus shelter and walk the field, looking out for a stone stile in the wall. Go over Sand C. Churn Clough Reservoir Churn constructedlooking out to for delineate a wooden the fingerchannel post. and reduce siltation. across the grassed area towards the stile. At the fingerpost, bear right and go Continue where the path crosses over dunes the stone bench. Here you can view Clough through the metal kissing gate. Take Dredging ended here shortlythe stream, before keeping the docks the closed stream in on the fish pass installed by Ribble the track to the right. Go through the metal gate Reservoir 1981, and the effects canyour already left. Take be seen.the well As -depositstrodden ofpath silt Rivers Trust. Once you have seen or over the stone stile. Once approaching the F. To Sabden Fold Farm and sand build, withoutto removal, your right salt across marshes the are field, which the fish pass, head back towards reservoir, take the left-hand kissing gate and follow the path Head straight across the field, redeveloping and meanderswill eventually are reappearing lead you in tothe a channel. metal the bus shelter. Carefully cross over round the reservoir, keeping the water on your right. looking out for a stone stile with a gate straight ahead. Once through Whalley Road and turn right, Continue to follow the path as it curves right, down the side of little wooden gate in the wall. Follow the gate, head diagonally left across heading towards the centre of Sabden the reservoir. After the green shelter, look out for the wooden the path, keeping the dry stone wall the field towards a metal gate with a Sabden Village. At the top of Brook kissing gate uphill to the left. on your right. Climb over the stone stone stile to the left of it. Once over Whalley Road, carefully cross over stile at the bottom of the path. Turn Dean the stile, head right, keeping the wall onto Wesley Street. At the top of Wesley Street To Sabden right and follow the path Farm on your right until you take the left-hand path signposted ‘Badger Wells Cottages’. D. Towards Ratten Clough Fold Farm down through the reach a small wooden Views from Once through the gate, take the right- farmyard. Views kissing gate. Go through hand path along the edge of the fence into the farmyard. B. Towards Calf Hill Ratten from The and go through the wooden kissing Directly after the barn on the left, take the Old House Clough gate at the end. Follow the dry stone G. Towards The Old House I. Back into Sabden path round to the left, over the bridge. wall ahead, keeping the wall on your Turn right onto the lane. On a Follow the track up to the right, and keep Turn left and follow the track until right. Go through the gateway into the right-hand bend, take the track right, following the tarmac road, then up you arrive back in Sabden village. next field. Turn left onto the tarmac off to the left, following the Track in to Calf the right-hand side of the row of houses. At the end of the track turn left track and follow it up to the farm. Go wooden fingerpost. Follow the When you come to a metal gate, go onto Stubbins Lane. At the Sabden Hill through the farmyard, bear left to track down to the house. through, and then take the path directly head round the farmhouse and bottom of the lane, turn right. The ahead of you through the field. continue straight through the yard. car park is on your left.

Bench at Sabden Brook A stone bench was installed in 2018 at Sabden Brook on the completion of the fish passage. The bench is regularly enjoyed by the public as it’s a peaceful place to sit and observe the brook. A poem by local resident, A. Haworth was inscribed into the bench. As you sit think if you will Of the folk who worked the mill Powered by the brook, built on its banks Listening to the water, we should give thanks; The brook, the mill, the folk, remember this, They made this village what it is, Our home.

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