Chipping Car Park, Off Church Raike WHAT to EXPECT: Starting in Chipping, This Scenic Route Heads Route

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SUGGESTED START: Chipping car park, off Church Raike WHAT TO EXPECT: Starting in Chipping, this scenic route heads route. the trialling

(SD 6211 4335) out of the village towards Wolf Fell. The route then winds and developing in support their for AONB Bowland of Forest the through farmland towards the Leagram Estate before returning and Lord Muriel Society, History Local Chipping to and Together

DISTANCE: 5.7 km / 3.6 miles into the village. Fantastic views can be enjoyed from much of the Life Ribble supporting for Fund Heritage Lottery National the To

TIME: 2 hrs (plus sightseeing) walk. There are numerous stiles on this route and there are

some moderate climbs; it is therefore best suited to walkers with you! Thank

TERRAIN: Mostly farmland and well maintained paths. Some on

good mobility. Terrain underfoot is generally good and includes iPhone. and Android on route

-road sections.

app to accompany this this accompany to app Life Ribble a mixture of fields, farm tracks and roads. Please be aware of the Download

www.ribblelifetogether.org DIFFICULTY: Moderate traffic when walking on the road. Livestock are present in some visit or more of the fields on this route. Please keep dogs on a lead. If cattle out find to code QR the Scan project. Together

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4 (Preston - Longridge)

users other and wildlife consider Code: Countryside the Follow

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5 (Clitheroe - Chipping) 1. Kirk Mill - there has been a mill on this site

You are here are You drinks and food spare Carry •

645 (Clitheroe - Chipping) since the 1400s, when it would have been a bottoming’

compass and map kit, aid first phone, mobile charged a Take

corn mill. The current building is possibly • at Berry’s

the last remaining Arkwright-style mill and conditions forecast for suitable clothing and boots sturdy Wear

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Chipping car park (pay and display) was built for cotton spinning. In more

recent times, the site was home to Berry’s safely Enjoy

Chairworks. The Berry family established a

Catchment Ribble The Circular Short Leagram Park: the in Leap

very successful business and, during its •

Chipping car park

peak, Berry’s employed nearly 150 people.

Walk History Village Chipping

The recession of the 1980s, competition •

from abroad, rising costs and reduced

Brabin’s Shop & Gallery, Chipping Farm Shop demand affected Berry’s profits, causing the company to fold in trails Nearby

2010. (Image courtesy of Kirk Mill Heritage Hub).

generations. 2. Wolfen Hall is an ancient manor farm, once owned by the future for legacy positive a leave to aim we science, on based

The Sun Inn, Tillotsons Arms

Sherburne family. Formerly known as ‘Wolf House’, the property action, environmental practical Through educate. and inspire has changed appearance over the to river the using and access improving rivers, the of heritage

centuries and it changed hands at various the celebrates project The wildlife. and people for 2020 by

Brabin’s Shop, The Cobbled Corner Café is working to create a healthier river system system river healthier a create to working is times during the 17th century, eventually Together Life Ribble

becoming a tenanted property until the late 20th century. Nearby Wolfen Mill THE RIVERS: Chipping Brook and its tributaries join the River began as a corn mill for the Wolfen Estate and later became a blacksmith’s business, Loud south of Chipping. The Loud then winds its way to the Wolfen then a cheese dairy. The properties are River Hodder, which continues to meander its way through the Hall now used as holiday accommodation. Forest of Bowland AONB, before joining the Ribble at Mitton. River Walks This part of the Ribble Catchment features predominantly 3. The Leagram Estate is a medieval deer park, agricultural land and is known for spectacular scenery. created in the early 1300s. The boundary of Leagram the park is called the ‘pale’, some of which Estate Chipping The River Loud is home to grayling, eels, chub and stoneloach. can still be seen. The pale is over 10 km long An unusual feature of the Loud is that it flows inland before and once stretched from Leagram Hall to joining the Hodder. It is likely that an alternative outlet was cut Stanley, Knott Hill and Loud Mythom. The off during the last ice age, forcing the river to carve itself a new Leagram Estate has been held by the Weld route. family since the early 1800s. The current hall was rebuilt in 1955. WILDLIFE: The upland fields lend themselves to This route highlights the industrial and spotting wildlife such as hares and buzzards. Deer are 4. Brabin’s Endowed School was gifted to the village in the will of agricultural heritage of the village of also frequently spotted along this John Brabin. Brabin was a dyer and cloth Chipping, part of the Forest of Bowland route. In the open fields, keep an eye out for dealer in the village and made a living by AONB. The watercourses in and around providing yarn to handloom weavers and lapwings, this once common farmland bird Lapwing then dyeing the woven cloth. On his death in Chipping allowed industry to thrive here has suffered significant declines in recent from the 1700s, making it the village we decades and is now a Red List species. 1683, Brabin left provisions for a school, However, sympathetic management of uniforms for pupils, an almshouse and see today. apprenticeships for local boys. The school farmland helps the Forest of Bowland Brabin’s old The name Chipping derives from Old AONB support the highest density of was rebuilt in 1880, however the door lintel school of the former school building still bears the English ‘ceping’ meaning ‘market’. Trading breeding lapwings and curlews in inscription initials of the original trustees and the of goods has long provided an important England (see overleaf under River Loud inscription ‘Doce Disce Vel Discede’ which source of income for farming households. Facilitation Fund translates as ‘Teach, learn or leave’. Goods traded in the village include; for more information). cheese, leather, textiles, wool and wood. 5. The Sun Inn pub is much older than its door lintel of 1758 In Chipping village itself, swifts can be suggests. It was mentioned in a will in 1636 as ’Top House’ and is spotted in summer making use of still referred to by this name. The oldest part of the building Swift the old buildings. overlooks the churchyard. The property is said to be haunted by Distance: 5.7 km / 3.6 miles the ghost of Lizzie Dean, a jilted scullery maid. Difficulty: Moderate

ROUTE DIRECTIONS C. Crossing Chipping Brook Continue to follow the track until you reach the next Ribble Rivers Trust Projects (see points on map) Just before the gate to Wolfen Hall, head right across the farm, Birchen Lee. Go through the farmyard, but do In 2012, two fish and eel passage projects were field to a stile next to a metal gate. not go as far as the farmhouse. Look out for a metal A. To Kirk Mill Go over the stile and head gate set back from the track on your right-hand side, completed on two weirs along Chipping Brook by From the car park, with the diagonally right, just to the left of just after crossing over the stream (the stream runs Ribble Rivers Trust. The weirs were remnants of Chipping’s toilet building behind you, head the telegraph pole. under the farm track). industrial past and had been redundant for many decades. to the top right-hand corner of Together the fish passes have opened up 11.4 km of water-

the car park and join Kirklands, Go over the stile and head for the courses to migratory species such as trout and the critically E. Return to Chipping Village endangered European eel. turning right. Turn left onto the wooden gate up the field, keeping adjoining road (Church Raike). the fence line on your left. Once Once through the gate, follow the left-hand fence until At the fork in the road, bear over the stile, head downhill, the field opens out, then head straight keeping the brook to your left. towards a small wooden gate in the right, downhill towards Kirk Views of Cross over the footbridge and use Chipping fence ahead. Head Mill. Fish pass the plank to step over the brook. Brook Parlick from straight down the field, Kirk Follow the path uphill to the stile at the top. Birchen Lee keeping to the left of the B. To Wolfen Hall Mill Once over the stile, head to the stile straight large hollow in the Continue along the road, ahead. Once over this stile, follow the wooden posts in the ground. Come to a passing the millpond and carry on field (in a 2 ’o clock direction) and use the stile in the top far wooden stile at the far following the road as it heads corner of the field (ignoring the stile off to the right). Once end and go over it. Walk uphill. Take care on the road as over the stile, keep the fence line to your left until the along the left-hand fence Eel pass traffic can be fast fence goes off at an angle. At this point, continue straight line. Follow the fence moving. Turn left to the stile ahead. Parlick and down Fish Lane. Wolf Fell through two more fields (no D. To Birchen Lee Follow the gates or stiles present) until it In 2014 a rock ramp fish pass was installed on a Mill road over Turn right onto the brings you to a stile opposite weir on Chipping Brook on the Wolfen Hall estate. Views of concrete track. Follow the pond a bridge the millpond. Turn left onto the Large rocks were positioned in front of the weir to create a track until you come to a then Longridge road (please be aware of traffic) deeper pool below it, allowing fish to make the leap required crossing in the road, then round to the right, following the Fell and follow the road back to jump over the weir. The project has improved access to a head straight on, through a wooden fingerpost. Carry through Kirk Mill. As you join further 2.6 km of brook upstream. straight on and over the cattle gateway into a field. Follow Church Raike, bear left back into grid as the track joins open the track straight on through two the village and follow the road Chipping fields. Enjoy fantastic views of dwellings (at Windy Hills Farm). back to the car park. car park Parlick and Wolf Fell.

Contains Ordnance Survey data River Loud Facilitation Fund

© Crown copyright and database right 2019. In 2015 Natural England’s Facilitation Fund was launched. The initiative aims to organise events and training for farmers so that they can manage their land, with conservation in mind, to a high standard by working together on a landscape scale rather than working alone as individuals.

Ribble Rivers Trust have been working with 29 farms in the River Loud catchment to provide advisory farm visits, training events and site visits with the aim of increasing natural flood management measures and reducing water pollution from farms. Ribble Life App Workshops and demonstrations have included: soil To see a time-lapse video of one the fish passage projects on management, wetland and woodland creation, pesticide Chipping Brook, download the Ribble Life app which use and guidance on Countryside Stewardship accompanies these River Walk guides. Open the ‘Chipping 2’ applications. map. Available on iOS and Android, the app features additional points of interest, further information and video and audio clips.

Every effort has been made to provide accurate information in this guide. Contains Ordnance Survey data Ribble Rivers Trust cannot take responsibility for any errors. No © Crown copyright and database right 2018. recommendation is given by inclusion or omission of any establishment.