OS Explorer Bowland Rambler – Tosside to OL41 Start Point End Point Distance/Time Terrain Key to Facilities Tosside, SD 7694 5609 Slaidburn, SD 7137 5232 7.25 Miles Tracks, fields and roads. Pubs, Cafés, Shops, Bus service: B10 from Bus service: B10 to Gates and some stiles. Toilets and Settle. Clitheroe, Tosside and Settle. 4 Hrs Some short ascents. Can be wet under foot.

2 GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) N 1 SD 7694 5609 2 SD 7618 5706 3 SD 7463 5599 1 5 3 4 SD 7420 5549 5 SD 7373 5598 4 6 SD 7311 5535 6 7 SD 7208 5443 8 SD 7195 5383 9 SD 7142 5263 7 SD 7137 5232

The Bowland Rambler 8 The Bowland Rambler Bus service (13) is a summer Sunday and Bank Holiday scenic bus service direct from East and Settle into the 9 heart of the . For further details of walks from the bus and a timetable visit www.forestofbowland.com/ramblerbus © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2010) © Copyright. Crown 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 1 Mile 0 Km 1 Km www.forestofbowland.com Bowland Rambler – Tosside to Slaidburn Walk Description About This Walk

Note: In Forest, the route does 4 GPS: SD 7420 5549 7 GPS: SD 7208 5443 The walk starts in the hamlet of Tosside, not follow the rights of way as indicated This track passes a barn (Bottom At the top, take the right fork and go which straddles the Lancashire/ by the OS map, but the trails marked by Laithe) then at the next junction through the next gate on the left. Go border on a hillside watershed. The route takes the Forestry Commission tracks the Forestry Commission. follow the way mark post straight straight ahead following the boundary through Gisburn Forest, before descending ahead. The surfaced path goes over a of the wood then right 1 GPS: SD 7694 5609 to and dropping down to small hillock before descending more onto the track. The track peters out the and Slaidburn village. From Tosside follow the road towards steeply to approach the road. here, but continue in the same Slaidburn and take the track on your Gisburn Forest is the largest wooded direction parallel to the stonewall. area in Lancashire. Created in 1948, the right, which meets the road on the 5 GPS: SD 7373 5598 Descend to the farm, joining another meadowland and pastures were planted corner at the edge of the village. At a wooden barrier, leave the track after a gate. with conifers, tolerant of the wet acidic soil Follow the track for 1.3 km, past the surfaced path to turn left onto the conditions. In more recent years, more sawmill and the Gisburn Forest sign road, following it back for around 8 GPS: SD 7195 5383 native British species such as alder, ash and turn left at the junction. 300m to the corner. Take the path Take the next left to follow an beech and oak have been planted to replace the felled trees. over the stile on the right, marked as enclosed track, which descends to a 2 GPS: SD 7618 5706 the Stocks Reservoir Circular Walk. small bridge. Cross the bridge and Stocks Reservoir - built in 1932 to supply Follow this track as it descends the Fylde, the reservoir holds approximately The path runs along the side of a turn right. Follow the stony track as it gradually, following the red / purple / 13.6 million m3 of water with a maximum hillock before going through a tall gate crosses the river via a stone arch green bike trails then left (still on the depth of 31m (103ft). Wildfowl and wading as Stocks Reservoir appears below. bridge then take the footpath left birds visit the reservoir and a hide for bird bike trails) at the next junction, on a Follow the path as it goes through a waymarked by a wooden post in front watchers is provided at the original site of track with a vehicle barrier. wood and parallel to the reservoir of a stonewall. Dalehead church. 3 GPS: SD 7463 5599 shore. Slaidburn - nestling in the upper Hodder 9 GPS: SD 7142 5263 Just before a coveted barn - Stephen Valley, Slaidburn is a picturesque stone built 6 GPS: SD 7311 5535 After the next gate go off the track village, notable for Parish church of St. Park, take the signposted path on the When Black House Farm appears towards the right to follow the stream Andrew dating back to 950 AD, with a left, which goes round the perimeter ahead, turn right at the waymark post up to a bridge by a house. Go Norman period font. Stock and cattle fairs of a bog and rejoins the track. Follow have been held in the village since 1294, as the path dips; take the left fork through the kissing gate and over the the track for another 450m, then take and the village once had a smith, tannery, above the next waymark post to bridge into Slaidburn village. At the the track right, guarded by a green wheelright, corn mill, hat manufacturing regain height and continue just to the memorial turn left and go downhill to shoe and dress making. vehicle barrier. right of a conifer plantation. The path the car park at the bottom of the The famous Hark to Bounty pub has a continues near the plantation, and just village. medieval courtroom with the original benches. The old grammar school, before the dam wall turn left up a GPS: SD 7137 5232 Brennand’s Endowed School, is now a stony track. Slaidburn, end point. primary school for the village and surrounding area. Slaidburn