Leap in the Park: Leagram Short Circular Start Point Distance/Time Terrain Leap in the Park Chipping Village Car Park 2.5m/4km 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 1 Hr be aware of livestock and keep dogs on a lead. Chipping – Pub, Shops, Cafe, Car park, Toilets

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© 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 Short Circular Walk Description Leap in the Park Use of a map for this walk is essential Chipping, Fell and on your left. Continue ahead along please use OS Explorer OL41 and look left to see . Continue this well laid track. When you reach the 1 GPS: SD 6215 4330 ahead to reach a wooden stile in the cattle grid, take a moment to look right hand corner. The ditch on your diagonally left and over to where you Start from Chipping Village car park. right here marks the boundary of the can see Radholme Deer Park. Continue Leave the car park by walking towards deer park. It is called the pale. Continue ahead once again to see New Laund the church to meet the road called ahead to the left of the telegraph Farm ahead, but bear right on the lane Church Rake. Turn left and continue poles and then begin to head before you actually enter the farmyard. ahead, away from the village, passing diagonally left, slightly downhill towards Kirk Cottages on your left, until you a wooden kissing gate The ledge you've meet a fork in the road. been walking along here is the pale 6 GPS: SD 6271 4459 boundary. Keep going down the lane, you will 2 GPS: SD 6203 4348 see Leagram Hall on your right. You will soon reach the road where you 4 GPS: SD 6208 4434 Take a right here and continue ahead, need to turn right. passing Grove Row on your left go Keep ahead on the well walked path over the bridge, and then pass Kirk Mill which will soon bear left into a on your left. Continue uphill passing wooded area and cross over a 7 GPS: SD 6275 4385 Mill Pond House on the right, and then wooden footbridge. Turn right at the Take an immediate right to join the take a right into the next driveway other end of the bridge and then concessionary bridleway, through a where you go over the wooden stile continue uphill keeping to the right wooden gate. Continue along here on the right. fence edge of the field. Aim for the left until the end where you will then side of Windy Hills farm house where re-join the road (see Leagram Lodge you go through a wooden gate and 3 GPS: SD 6194 4368 on your right) and follow the road turn right into the farmyard. down to a T-junction Go uphill, keeping to the right fence edge. It can get very muddy towards the top of the hill, especially after bad 5 GPS: SD 6195 4459 8 GPS: SD 6238 4339 weather. Once you reach the brow of Continue straight ahead along the lane. Turn right and follow the road back the hill take a moment to soak up the Passing through some farm buildings into the village. lovely views around the Forest of keep ahead until you reach Birchin Lee Bowland –look right for views back to www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark Leap in the Park: Leagram Short Circular Walk Description Leap in the Park Kirk Mill was originally a water- Weld who inherited the estate from Chipping - The walk starts and finishes powered corn mill and there are the Shireburn family. The current in Chipping, a picturesque village on documents showing that the mill dates Leagram Hall was built in 1965, and it the slopes above the River Loud. This back to the 1400s. It was converted is still owned by the Weld-Blundell is a conservation area with stone-built into a cotton spinning mill in 1785 by a family who live there today. cottages, 17th century school and company using building plans and almshouses endowed by John Brabin, water powered machines based on Sir dyer and cloth merchant. The village Richard Arkwright's designs. The water The Pale or deer park boundary has a number of shops and eating wheel is still in place and it measures consisted of earthworks constructed places and Robinson's butchers where 6m in diameter and 1.5m wide. in the middle of the 14thcentury. At you can buy local ice cream. Brabin's Cotton spinning ended here in 1866, Leagram the pale is over 10km long shop, gallery and tearoom is the when supplies of raw cotton ran short and stretches from here up to Stanley oldest continuously trading shop in during the American Civil War. In the common, round to Knot Hill and Loud Britain, established 1668. It has an art late 19th Century Berry's established a Mythom, then along the river to gallery with exhibitions of work by joinery and chair-making business in Gibbon Bridge and Pale, before local artists and a tea garden next to the mill, but the old buildings have returning to Chipping. A ditch 2.4m Chipping Brook serving tea, coffee and been little altered. Berry's closed in wide and 1.2m deep was dug, with an home-made cakes. The walk also 2011 and Kirk Mill remains as the last embankment on the outside and a passes the Gibbon Bridge Hotel, an Arkwright-style mill in . palesbord or timber fence on top. independent, privately owned, four Thorn bushes would also be planted star country hotel offering luxury on the inside of the bank to keep deer accommodation and fine dining. For a Leagram Hall was originally the Deer away from the fence. The pale café meal, consider the Cobbled Park Lodge which acted as an encircled the park to keep fallow deer Corner or try a pub meal at the Sun occasional home to the park owner, in and poachers out. This is one of the Inn or Tillotsons Arms. and as a hunting lodge for visiting best remaining sections of the pale noblemen and the park keeper. It was that you will see on the walk. built in an 'H' shape, probably of For further information about A Leap timber and plaster, and with a rush in the Park Project visit: thatch roof. This lodge was later replaced with stone structures www.forestofbowland.com/ between the 1770s and 1860s by aleapinthepark father and son, Thomas and George www.forestofbowland.com/aleapinthepark