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magazine autumn 2011 magazine autumn 2011 Northern England Northern England 08/08/2011 13:02 03 Wansfell, Cumbria 04 Stoodley Pike, West Yorkshire ● Distance 10km/6 miles ● Time 4hrs ● Type Hill ● Distance 13km/8 miles ● Time 4hrs ● Type Hill NAVIGATION FITNESS NAVIGATION FITNESS 2 LEVEL 2 3 LEVEL 3 2 LEVEL 2 2 LEVEL 2 IS A H Plan your walk TH OL Plan your walk E ID K A A with Y ! M Ramblers Barnoldswick w k Countrywide ● w u w . WANSFELL Holidays o . r .c a e m id WEST YORKSHIRE bl w erscountry ● Leeds Kendal Broughton ● in Furness STOODLEY ● CUMBRIA PIKE Oldham ● ● Holmfi rth ● Manchester ● Lancaster WHERE: Circular walk from WHERE: Circular walk Ambleside via Stockghyll from Todmorden in the Force, Wansfell and South Pennines. PHOTOGRAPHY: NEIL COATES PHOTOGRAPHY: Troutbeck. FIONA BARLTROP PHOTOGRAPHY: START/END: Todmorden START/END: Long-stay car The bustling tourist town of the north of the town (SD936241). A renovated extravaganza of 1. START From Todmorden Town park near Ambleside TIC Ambleside makes an excellent (NY376047), walk back down TERRAIN: Towpath, lanes, locks, lengths and pounds strikes Hall (SD936241), walk along (NY376047). base as a walking centre, with a towards the centre, bearing L moorland tracks and paths. through the South Pennines, Rochdale Road (A6033) and TERRAIN: Clear paths, fi ne variety of local routes from past the TIC and Salutation MAPS: OS Explorer OL21; linking the Victorian industrial slip R on to the cobbled path quiet lanes and woodland which to choose. For novice Hotel. As the road bears round Landranger 103. behemoths of south Lancashire’s immediately past the library. tracks, with a steep climb fell-walkers, or those new to the to the R, turn L along a narrow GETTING THERE: cotton towns with the woollen Turn sharp-L beneath the bridge up Wansfell. Lake District, there are two nearby lane between Barclays Bank Todmorden train station is and worsted centres of Yorkshire’s along the canal towpath and MAPS: OS Explorer OL7; fells – Loughrigg to the west of (on the L) and the Market Hall on the line from Manchester Calder Valley. The Rochdale Canal, remain on this for the next Landranger 90. the town and Wansfell to the (on the R), then L again at the Victoria to Leeds via Halifax reopened in 2002, is a daunting 2 miles. Beyond the town’s GETTING THERE: Mainline east – which make excellent T-junction. You’ll see a sign (✆ 0871 200 2233, challenge to boaters but a delight industrial fringe, the waterway trains to Windermere, introductory hill walks, both opposite: ‘To the waterfalls’. www.traveline.org.uk). for ramblers, revealing both the takes on a pleasant semi-rural where regular buses take within the abilities of most. They Carry on up the lane and soon There are pay-and-display fascinating, hidden faces of the aspect, striking past meadows you to Ambleside – 555, 505 are also ideal as half-day routes if bear L again along a track car parks in Todmorden. old textile towns and villages and and stretches of woodland & 599 (✆ 0871 200 2233, poor weather spoils some of the signed: ‘This way to the EATING & DRINKING: some of the most enchanting before reaching Lock 14 at www.traveline.info). day. Wansfell Pike is the higher waterfalls’, which takes you into Top Brink Inn, Lumbutts, landscapes and countryside at Huncoat (SD965253). EATING & DRINKING: of the two, at 484m/1588ft, and Stockgyhll Woods. Follow the red Todmorden (✆ 01706 the core of the Industrial Lots of restaurants, affords superb views over the arrows, keeping to the upper 812696, www.topbrink. Revolution’s heart. This walk 2. Cross the bridge and join the cafés and takeaways in surrounding fells and down the path, which leads you to a good com). explores part of this heritage signed path into Height Wood, Ambleside. Recommended whole length of Windermere. viewing point for the falls. Just SLEEPING: Kilnhurst at Todmorden before heading rising R to join a rough lane. are Zeffi rellis cinema, It’s a steep but straightforward above is a picnic table and a sign: Old Hall, Kilnhurst for the hills and an airy Keep uphill to a L-hand hairpin pizzeria & café (✆ 015394 climb to the top, followed by a ‘To the revolving gate’. Turn Lane, Todmorden perambulation on the Pennine bend; and turn R on to the 33845, www.zeffi rellis.com) descent at a more moderate sharp R here and follow the (✆ 01706 814289, Way to Stoodley Pike, capped by bridleway, crossing the beck and and Sheila’s Cottage gradient to the village of path to the gate and lane, www.kilnhurstoldhall.co. a notable monument and blessed rising past the cottage, to pick restaurant and tea rooms Troutbeck. The return route via where you turn L. uk); Mankinholes YHA, with extraordinary views across up a grass-centred lane. Stay on (✆ 01539 433079). There’s Skelghyll Woods provides more Mankinholes, Todmorden the roof of England. Your return this for 365m/400yds and, just also the Mortal Man pub in fi ne views of Windermere. 2. Soon on your R you’ll reach a (✆ 01706 812340, to Todmorden takes you via past the driveway for Stoodley ▲ Troutbeck (✆ 01539 433193, footpath signed for Troutbeck www.yha.org.uk). ▲ charming hillside hamlets lost Hall on your R, turn L up the 1. START From the car park to (just above some steps in the amidst haymeadows. farm lane. Bend to the R of the ▼ ▼ p51-52 WALK32 Routemaster Northern.indd 1 p51-52 WALK32 Routemaster Northern_rev1.indd 2 Ordnance Surveymap Ordnance Surveymap Continued... 2 www.themortalman.co.uk). Map not to scale. SLEEPING: Plenty of START ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 Representation of ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 accommodation in 1 FINISH OS Landranger MAP Ambleside, including 103 1:50,000 hostels, and more B&Bs at www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk 2 Troutbeck, such as the Mortal Man (see above). 3 START 3 Contact the TIC for details. FINISH VISITOR INFORMATION: 1 4 Ambleside TIC, Market Cross (✆ 01539 432582, www.golakes.co.uk). 4 GUIDEBOOKS: Lake District Walks (Pathfinder) by Brian Conduit (£10.95, Jarrold, 5 ISBN 9780711704633); 50 Walks in the Lake District by Bill Birkett et al, (£9.99, AA Books, ISBN 9780749555955); Fifteen Walks from 5 Ambleside and Grasmere by Paul Buttle (£2.50, Amadorn, moorland edge here at Stoodley. through the edge, marked by a Map not to scale. ISBN 9780951371749). Representation of Continued... On reaching a Pennine Way (PW) tall standing stone. Turn R here, LOCAL RAMBLERS AREA/ OS Landranger MAP 90 fingerpost just shy of Swillington joining a time-worn, paved path GROUP: Kendal Ramblers 1:50,000 VISITOR INFORMATION: Farm, turn sharp-R and that snakes down off the moors. (www.ralakedistrict.talktalk. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk Todmorden TIC commence a gentle climb up on Go through a gate and ahead by net); Summitt Good, 20s to (✆ 01706 818181, to the moors. At the cross-wall, a wall to a tarred lane at Lumbutts 40s walking group (www. www.visittodmorden.co.uk). turn R over the stile and Methodist Church (SD958233). summittgood.blogspot. come into view, and you should which lies below in the Trout GUIDEBOOKS: South Pennine continue on the PW to the com). also be able to spot Grasmere Beck valley. The east window is Walks by Jack Keighley eye-catching tower on Stoodley 5. Turn L, shortly passing the and Rydal Water. particularly notable. (£5.99, Cicerone Press, ISBN Pike (SD973242). The monument drive to Top Brink Inn. On your L 9781852843908); South was built to commemorate here is the remarkable MAKE THIS A HOLIDAY: 3. From Wansfell Pike’s summit 5. Turn R at the post office along Pennines Walks (Pathfinder) Napoleon’s abdication in 1814 waterwheel tower, built in 1830 Choose from hundreds of there are excellent views of a track called Robin Lane. The by Neil Coates (£11.99, Crimson and completed, after a slight to power the largely gone cotton British walking breaks with Windermere. Go through a gate route back to Ambleside is well Press, ISBN 9781854585059); hiccough and Waterloo, in 1815; mill. The tower contained three Ramblers Countrywide and carry straight on down the signed with lovely views over Calderdale: Walking Country it was rebuilt in 1856 to waterwheels built one above the Holidays (✆ 01707 331133, clear path on the other side, Windermere. Once in the woods by Paul Hannon (£6.99, celebrate the end of the Crimean other, obtaining three times the www.ramblerscountrywide. ignoring a permissive footpath you’ll pass the viewpoint of Hillside Publications, War. Spread at your feet is a power per deluge of 18 tonnes co.uk). to the R when you reach a gate. Jenkin Crag. Keep to the upper ISBN 9781907626074). veritable banquet of the best of water per minute. The mill Ahead of you to the L is the path at junctions in the woods. LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: the South Pennines can offer: closed in 1926. Remain on the triple-peaked ridge, Ill Bell, After joining a tarmac lane Calderdale Ramblers beyond Todmorden is the lane for just under a mile to pass wall and a stile beyond). Head flanked by Froswick and Yoke. you drop down to the southern ✆ ( 01422 823440, www. Cliviger Gorge, while to your the Shepherd’s Rest pub. Then up this – first on a hard-surface At the next gate you bear R end of Ambleside and turn R ramblersyorkshire.org/ right are the fabulous wooded take the second farm drive R (for path, then a well constructed on to a walled track called back to the centre.