Leap in the Park: Leagram Circular Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Leap in the Park Chipping Village Car Park 6.5m/11km Lanes, tracks, fields (can get muddy in parts), includes a Key to Facilities SD 6214 4330 number of stiles. The trail passes through farmland so 2 Hrs 30 Mins be aware of livestock and keep dogs on a lead. Chipping – Pub, Shops, Cafe, Car park, Toilets

GPS Waypoints (OS grid refs) N 1 SD 6214 4330 2 SD 6200 4360 5 3 SD 6206 4418 4 4 SD 6219 4520 5 SD 6232 4547 6 SD 6402 4406 7 SD 6489 4305 8 SD 6374 4247 3 9 SD 6279 4200 6 10 SD 6264 4259 11 SD 6239 4324 2 1 A SD 6365 4595 11 7 B SD 6373 4603 C SD 6403 4696 D SD 6397 4735 10 8 E SD 6481 4703 F SD 6549 4708

9 © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2013) © Copyright. Crown Route – 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 1 Mile 0 Km 1 Km Pale – www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark Leap in the Park: Leagram Circular Walk Description Leap in the Park Use of a map for this walk is essential Continue ahead to reach a wooden with rushes. Go through several gates a metal gate just before Lickhurst please use OS Explorer OL41 stile in the right hand corner. The ditch and stiles until you reach the base of Farm. (If you would like to link with the 1 GPS: SD 6214 4330 and hawthorn bushes to your right here the hill before you: Salter Hill. Look for Radholme Circular route at this point, follow the original line of the pale: the a footpath sign on a post next to the turn to the back page for the link route Start from Chipping Village car park deer park boundary. wall, just before the land starts to rise description). Continue into the farm and walk towards the church. When Continue ahead across the large field, up hill. yard and turn right after the first farm you reach the roadside, turn left away house and then go through the big from the village and proceed along heading between the wire and the first telegraph pole and then begin to head double gates ahead. Go past the Church Rake, passing Kirk Cottages on 4 GPS: SD 6219 4520 second farm house, bear right on the the left. Fork right downhill along Kiln diagonally left, slightly downhill to stop You are now leaving the line of the lane and continue along to the end, Brow and continue ahead, passing at a clump of large trees. pale, so bear left here and head going through the wooden gate. Grove Row on your left and then through the rushes, towards the Follow the track as it bears to the stopping at Kirk Mill on your left. 3 GPS: SD 6206 4418 hawthorn trees where you will see a right at the bottom and continue – Continue downhill and go through a wooden stile. Continue straight ahead soon to bear left and reach a wooden 2 GPS: SD 6200 4360 wooden kissing gate, then keep ahead and slightly right towards where you stile. Continue on this track over a can see a hard track. Go over the number of stiles until you are going Continue uphill passing Mill Pond on the well walked path which will soon bear left into a wooded area and wooden stile and then take a sharp downhill with a hedge on your right. House on the right, and then take a right along a rough track (not the hard Cross another wooden stile, and look right into the next driveway (about over a wooden footbridge over Dobson's Brook. Turn right at the track in front of you) and go through for a bird hide off on the right. You are halfway along the length of the mill a wooden gate – you will pass High welcome to use the hide. pond). Go over the wooden stile on other end of the bridge and then continue uphill, keeping the fence to Barn ruin on your right, and Salter Hill is From the stile follow the track the right and then continue uphill, on the right... keeping to the right fence edge. It can your right, aiming for the left of Windy downhill, and as it begins to bear left get very muddy towards the top of Hills farm house where you will find a towards a gate you need to come off wooden gate. Go through the gate the track to go ahead and to the right the hill, especially after bad weather. 5 GPS: SD 6232 4547 and into the farmyard, walk past the over the wooden stile. Once you reach the brow of the hill take barn opposite you and then turn left Keep along this moorland track until a moment to soak up the lovely views up beside it and take the track uphill you reach a wooden gate and around the Forest of Bowland –look right using a sunken lane. The hedge to your stepping stones over the stream and for views back to Chipping, Longridge right here is still the deer park boundary. then follow the track uphill at the Fell and Pendle Hill and look left to Follow this track beside the boundary, other side and round the back of see Parlick. beware it can get very boggy and thick Stanley moor. You will eventually reach www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark Leap in the Park: Leagram Circular Walk Description Leap in the Park Join the track ahead and follow it to ahead following the river edge, the barn, and ahead through a metal right to the end. Once you reach the the left passing Knot Hill lime kiln on crossing another wooden stile. Be very gate. Pass alongside the barn and keep end, go over a wooden stile and into a your right. At the T-junction go right careful here as it's quite steep and the fence to your right to the end of private garden. Continue through the and continue along the lane for around rough underfoot. During the spring time the field where you cross a wooden garden and driveway and you will half a mile. At the cattle grid feel free there is an abundance of wild flowers stile. Continue ahead and slightly left reach a road, take a left here and walk to use the gate. Here you are re joining growing on this section of the walk aiming for a way marked post. Bear ahead to another house (Pale Farm) the park boundary, and the track down making the area look exceptionally right over a stone bridge and continue where you need to follow the to the main road actually lies along the beautiful. Keep ahead crossing two to the wooden gate onto the road footpath to the left of a garage. Follow top of the pale. more wooden stiles to reach some opposite Gibbon Bridge Hotel. the signs, and go over a wooden stile. stepping stones over the river (be careful here after bad weather, it can 6 GPS: SD 6402 4406 get slippy). This crossing is called Bailey 8 GPS: SD 6374 4247 Cross the road carefully and go Hippings. Continue into the Hotel entrance directly over the stile. Keeping to the Once across, go over the stile and passing in front of the restaurant and right fence edge, this is the pale again; straight ahead to the footbridge. Cross underneath the arch to then take a continue ahead to the right corner of the bridge and go uphill to reach a left in front of the gymnasium. the field and over the wooden stile. wooden stile, and then continue along Continue up the slope to the top of Turn right onto the road and follow the field edge. Take a stile into a copse the next car park past some garages, this for around half a mile. Take care as and continue along a narrow path by and to a wooden gate. Follow the it is a narrow road. the river. At the end you will reach right fence edge ahead and come to a some metal steps that take you onto wooden stile. Go over a footbridge the main road. Take a right here and and then continue ahead uphill. This is 7 GPS: SD 6489 4305 then almost immediately left into the the line of the deer park boundary From here there are two routes to Gibbon Bridge Hotel entrance. again, and by the footbridge you will see Gibbon Bridge: Option 1is the main route a deep ditch and bank: the remains of Option 2 via Greenlands farm: if the weather is good and the river is not the pale. At the end of the fence by a Retrace your steps back up the road swollen. Take Option 2, the track via large oak tree, go through a metal from Loud Mythom and around the Greenlands farm if the river is high. gate into the stock pens, and then corner to the second footpath sign bear immediately right through a Option 1 via Bailey Hippings: Go over which is opposite the wood. Follow second metal gate onto a track. a wooden stile on the opposite side of the track to the farm, passing in front Follow the track around the corner the road to the house and continue of the house and then left in front of and alongside the field edge (the pale) www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark Leap in the Park: Leagram Circular Walk Description About This Walk Leap in the Park 9 GPS: SD 6279 4200 11 GPS: SD 6239 4324 The Pale or deer park boundary is a conservation area with stone-built Once over the stile turn right and then Retrace your steps back up to the consisted of earthworks constructed cottages, 17th century school and right again to go up the field. Walk to road and continue right along Windy in the middle of the 14th century. At almshouses endowed by John Brabin, where the line of large trees begins, Street, taking care as it is very narrow Leagram the pale is over 10km long dyer and cloth merchant. The village and bear to the left in front of them with no footpath. When you reach the and stretches up to Stanley common, has a number of shops and eating and follow them along the field edge. cross roads at the parish church, take round to Knot Hill and Loud Mythom, places and Robinson's butchers where This is still the line of the pale. Cross a Church Rake to return to the car park. then along the river to Gibbon Bridge you can buy local ice cream. Brabin's and Pale, before returning to Chipping. shop, gallery and tearoom is the oldest wooden footbridge and stile. Carry on across the next three fields and stiles, A ditch 2.4m wide and 1.2m deep continuously trading shop in Britain, keeping to the right fence edge, notice was dug, with an embankment on the established 1668. It has an art gallery the pale ditch again. At the third stile outside and a palesbord or timber with exhibitions of work by local you are at Chipping Moss. fence on top. Thorn bushes would also artists and a tea garden next to be planted on the inside of the bank Chipping Brook serving tea, coffee and to keep deer away from the fence. home-made cakes. The walk also 10 GPS: SD 6264 4259 The pale encircled the park to keep passes the Gibbon Bridge Hotel, an Here you finally leave the deer park fallow deer in and poachers out. independent, privately owned, four boundary and head diagonally left For further information about A Leap star country hotel offering luxury across the field to the corner, go in the Park Project visit: accommodation and fine dining. For a through a metal gate, over the bridge www.forestofbowland.com/ café meal, consider the Cobbled and turn right onto the road. This takes aleapinthepark Corner or try a pub meal at the Sun you back into the centre of Chipping Inn or Tillotsons Arms. Village. Once you pass Brabin's school on your left, look for the turning on Chipping - The walk starts and finishes your right to St Mary's catholic church. in Chipping, a picturesque village on Go down this hill and turn right in the slopes above the River Loud. This front of the house, through a metal gate and follow a grassy path to a community garden.

www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark Leap in the Park: Leagram to Radholme Link Route Walk Description Leap in the Park N top left corner. (Don't use the wooden E GPS: SD 6481 4703 stile in the middle of the fence) Join Over the stile and cross the road and D the track and follow until you reach a through the field gate into the field lane where you need to turn right and with a limestone outcrop. Follow the F into Dinkling Green Yard. old track downhill to reach a field gate C E C GPS: SD 6403 4696 in the field corner. Through this gate In the yard take a left after passing the and continue downhill along the field first barn and then go through the edge to and through another field small wooden gate to the left of the gate and continue along the old track farm building. Cross the field uphill down to the farm track. ahead to stile to the left of the metal F GPS: SD 6549 4708 B gate in the fence, and then bear Turn right and continue through the A slightly right to a stile in a fence. Over farm until you reach a wooden gate the stile and turn left till you reach the ahead. Begin to go downhill, keeping old track leading down to the brook. the woodland and wall immediately D GPS: SD 6397 4735 on your right. Cross the stepping

© Crown Copyright. All rights reserved (100023320) (2013) © Copyright. Crown stones at the bottom and then turn 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 1 Mile Turn right onto this track and cross a 0 Km 1 Km wooden footbridge. Go through a immediately left at the end of them and follow the path back to the Inn Walk Description wooden gate and up to Fence Wood Farm, straight into the farm yard at Whitewell. You can now join the Starting at Lickhurst Farmyard B GPS: SD 6373 4603 through a wooden gate and across Radholme Circular route at Point 7. SD 6365 4595 (between point 5 and 6) Continue ahead, bearing slightly left to another yard through another gate. A GPS: SD 6365 4595 pass way marker and ahead through a Pass in front of the farm house and out through the gate and along the After coming through the metal gate metal gate and then bear to the left track uphill. Bear right at the t continue down towards the farmyard along a faint track and then keep to the junction and follow bridle way but bear left to continue downhill left fence edge passing a pond on your towards and past Tunstall Ing. Just passing the farm. Go across the right and continue until you reach the past Tunstall Ing bear left off the track wooden footbridge at the bottom and hedge line at the bottom and turn right and follow the footpath across the uphill at the other side. in front of it. Follow the hedge along rushy field to reach the road. until you come to a metal gate in the www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark