Gawthorpe Circular

Gawthorpe Time: 2 Hours Distance: 8 km (4 miles) Hall Map: OS 103

Grove Lane ‘Trail of Words’ Bridge

Brookfoot STEEP - Bridge Take Care Hagg Wood

Permissive Grove Lane VP Route Plantation

Padiham Haws Trail of and Pendle Words

VP = Viewing Point - Across to Gawthorpe River Calder and Stream feeding in past Grove Lane Gawthorpe Hall Padiham Salmon Sculpture NORTH Town Hall X Wildlife Viewing

Around Grove Lane: Heron, North woodpeckers and roe deer can be glimpsed by the quiet and observant. Padiham The old English spelling of ‘Trail of Words’ at Grove Lane Around Hollins Farm: You Padingham suggests the town The hand rails are carved with may spot brown hares and existed well before the Norman the words of local writers and wading birds such as the curlew, Conquest. It is said to derive from children to form the trail of words. lapwing and oyster catcher in an Anglo-Saxon Chieftain called Gawthorpe Hall the open fields. As well as sand Padda. His community settled Home to the Shuttleworth family martins, dipper, kingfisher, grey beside the River Calder. In time the hall was built between 1600 wagtail and sand piper closer to Padda’s ham became Padiham. and 1605 and was restored in the the river. mid 1800’s by leading architect Hagg Wood of the day Sir Charles Barry – Meadows beyond Hagg One of only 6 ancient semi famed for his design of the Wood: At the right time of year natural woodlands left in the Houses of Parliament. The Hall the area between path and Burnley district, you will observe was given to the National Trust in Silver Birch, Rowan and Sessile 1970 and is now managed by the crane bills, white meadow sweet Oak trees typical of the acid soils Lancashire Museums Service. and greater purple willow herbs. of the sandstone Pennine Inside - the Halls opulent interior, valley’s. All in contrast to the Ash, displays both Jacobean and Hazel, Alder and Willow of the Victorian furniture, as well as more fertile, lime-rich wet valley many notable paintings on loan SKIPTON bottoms such as at Grove Lane. from the National Portrait Gallery. WHALLEY CLITHEROE PADIHAM M65

Free parking throughout Padiham town centre 11

After your walk why not explore the towns many shops or relax in one of its eateries. 10 Padiham - a town proud of its independent retailers. 9 8 BURNLEY For further walking routes in and around Padiham, visit - www.visitpadiham.co.uk/walks 7 1 The walk starts at Padiham Town Hall in 7 Cross the bridge and follow the stone track the centre of the town. Starting from the through the gate. Close the gate and climb front steps, pass in front of the White Horse the stone track for 800m until you come to pub and then in to the centenary garden. another gate at the top of the field. Please The two sculptures you see here are the keep to the track and keep dogs on leads as ‘Waving Women’ by John Haworth of this is a farmed field. Part way up is a memo- Hebden Bridge. rial bench to aid your enjoyment of the view.

2 Climb up to the main road, taking care whilst 8 Through the bridle gate, continue up the crossing. Cross the road on to Waddington tarmac path for about 100m before turning Street, then bear right on to Lune Street right by climbing the stile past the Woodland past the supermarket. Follow the road for Trust sign. Follow the path for about 100m 400m, and at the footbridge continue and you will be entering Hagg Wood – straight on along the riverbank for 300m owned and managed by the woodland Trust. with the factory on your left. At the end of Follow the main path across the top of the the factory fence line, take the sharp left wood for about 700m keeping the top fence turn and follow the path with the works on in view on your left. your left for about 500m before coming to a small car park by Grove Lane plantation. 9 The path crosses a small gully by steps and a small bridge before rising again to leave 3 Enter the wood through the squeeze stile the wood over a stile. Take care on the steep and look for the Forest Of Burnley panel on slope as you descend toward the river. the right. Follow the woodland path for 300m, crossing a small footbridge, before 10 You are now on a permissive path courtesy turning left 50m after the footbridge to of the landowner so please keep to the path climb a few steps. On your right you will see and keep dogs on leads again. Follow the the Heron sculpture carved by Martin riverside path for about 1,500m until you Heron in 2000. come to another stile, this leads you into the grounds of Gawthorpe Hall. 4 About 20m past the heron, towards the track, turn right and follow the path through 11 Now owned by the National Trust. See the the wood for 100m until you reach a small additional feature for details of this sculpture set in stone. Past this, turn right on Elizabethan gem where the tea rooms, Great to the stone track. This was the track of an Barn and main Hall are well worth a visit. old coal ginny railway that brought coal from Follow the path up through the trees for a pit across the valley to Padiham. As late as about 50m before turning right onto the the 1960’s, a huge machine called Marion track that will take you past the Hall. Beyond worked the fields above the plantation to the gate take the right hand track, that leads open cast coal. The area is now green once straight on to the main driveway for about more and you will observe the rails carved 300m. with poems by local school children and writers. 12 Take the sharp right immediately after you have passed the car park and sports field. 5 Follow the track for 200m until you reach an After about 50m bear left and follow the path open viewing area and glimpse Gawthorpe downhill until you come to Thomson Hall on the far bank. Turn around here and Dagnall’s Salmon sculpture. Walk past the retrace your steps for just a few metres and sculpture heading down hill slightly, until you pick up the right turn a few metres ahead, meet another path by the footbridge after that will take you up to the Grove Lane about 100m. track. At the track turn right and walk along

for about 300m until you reach Brookfoot 13 Cross the bridge and take a left turn on to Bridge. Waddington Street. After 100m turn left on to the river side path this passes under the 6 About 200m beyond Brookfoot Bridge, up on road bridge and leads by steps to the town your left you will see the newly planted hall car park. If the river is high do not woodland around Hollins Farm. Continue on pass under the bridge but instead return the track for another 600m over a cattle grid by the supermarket and the waving Women until it takes a right fork to the river bridge. as you started the walk.

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Padiham Life are grateful for Keith’s advice and support in helping us to update this route.”