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EXTREME BRITAIN 999 CAMPAIGN DAYPACKS SCOTTISH LOCHS GOLDSWORTHY TRAIL Extreme Britain Walks That Take You to the Country’S Limits WINTER £3.60 www.walkmag.co.uk No.33 No.33 WINTER 2011 WINTER WIN! A HOLIDAY FOR TWO TO FRANCE WORTH OVER £2,000! MAGAZINE OF THE RAMBLERS – BRITAIN’S WALKING CHARITY EXTREME BRITAIN 999 CAMPAIGN DAYPACKS SCOTTISH LOCHS GOLDSWORTHY TRAIL GOLDSWORTHY LOCHS SCOTTISH DAYPACKS CAMPAIGN 999 BRITAIN EXTREME Extreme Britain Walks that take you to the country’s limits DAYPACKS12 TRIED & TESTED www.walkmag.co.uk SOS success! magazine winter 2011 magazine winter 2011 Northern England Northern England Forest of Bowland, Lancashire Our 999 campaign result 03 St John’s in the Vale, Cumbria 04 l Distance 18km/11 miles l Time 7½hrs l Type Hill l Distance 21km/12 miles l Time 5-6hrs l Type Moorland NAVIGATION FITNESS NAVIGATION FITNESS 3 LEVEL 3 3/4 LEVEL 3/4 4 LEVEL 4 4 LEVEL 4 IS A H Plan your walk TH OL Plan your walk E ID K A A with Y ! M Ramblers l w Carlisle Countrywide k w u w . Holidays o CUMBRIA . c ra . m e id FOREST OF bl w Continued... erscountry BOWLAND ST JOHN’s iN THE VALE GUIDEBOOK & Arran CoasStal: The Paths Ayrshire by l Kendal Yorkshire Hareden Keith Fergus (£12.95, P Dales TRO ing © Crown copyright. AM34/08 copyright. Crown © ing p map Survey Ordnance l Cicerone, ISBN DUNSOP l 9781852846329). Lancaster LOCAL RAMB Kilmarnock andLER LoudounS GROUP: Continued... Ramblers (✆ 01563 821331, FINISH WHERE: Circular walk from WHERE: Circular walk www.freewebs.com/ 4 VISITOR INFOR from St John’s in the Vale, Dunsop Bridge in the Forest kilmarnockand Stirling TIC, DumbarMATION:ton over Clough Head and of Bowland. ✆ HY: FIONA BARL PHOTOGRAPHY: HY: ALAMY PHY: PHOTOGRA loudounramblers). Street ( 01786 475019, © Crown copyright. AM34/08 copyright. Crown © ping the Dodds, with a return START/END: Dunsop Bridge 3 map Survey Ordnance www.visitstirling.org). over High Rigg (or along (SD660501). The lovely valley of St John’s in 1. START Set off along the Hang your hat amid the a sizeable chunk. This mixed GUIDEBOOK CLIVE ANDERSON the valley). the Vale is one of the quieter broad, stony track signed TERRAIN: Boggy sheer, isolated desolation of history made Bowland a cause 5 by Alistair LawsoS: Walksn Stirling START/END: Wanthwaite areas of the Lake District, the fells ‘Matterdale – Unsuitable moorland, with some Whitendale Hanging Stones célèbre among campaicampaignersgners (NY316231). either side of it far less frequented for Motors’. This is the Old steady ascents, stiles and a and – says the Ordnance Survey demanding the right to roam bridge over the (£2.95, Hallewell, TERRAIN: Stony track and than many elsewhere. To the Coach Road, which crosses the small stretch of paved road. – you’re at the very centre of and, perhaps in recognition and continu River Irvine, tu ISBN 9781872405520). grassy fell, with a steep MAPS: OS Explorer OL41; the path passie alongside the ri rn L L east lies the northern end of the flanks of Clough Head and Great Britain and its outlying of this, Bowland was the first OCAL 4 but straightforward Landranger 103. ng underneath ver,t RAMB Helvellyn range, a great ridge Matterdale Common at the islands. But there is more to area to be opened upup under the A737 to reach a Stirling, FalkirkL ER& DistrictS GETTING THERE: The AREA: ascent and descent and of fells whose highest point, northern end of the Helvellyn Bowland than merely massaging Countryside and RRiightsghts of Way Burns statue. Be fork at a Roberhe Ramblers (✆ 01786 841178, easy walking over high, Bowland Transit Bus B10/ Helvellyn, is the most climbed range. As you climb steadily your inner pedant. A remote Act 2000. the path to a ar L and followt www.ramblers.co.uk/ grassy tops. B11 serves Dunsop Bridge mountain in Lakeland. It can get up, there are excellent views of Area of Outstanding Natural a minor road. waymarked sign groups). MAPS: OS Explorer OL5; very busy up here, but just a few both Blencathra and Skiddaw. from Clitheroe, which Beauty, it hosts the UK’s largest 1. START The tiny villavillagege of take the R-handCross the road, at 2 Landranger 90. miles away – north of Sticks Pass Follow the track for about an is served by regular breeding site for hen harriers, Dunsop is owned by the Duchy GETTING THERE: trains from Manchester continue thro path and – the broad, grassy tops of the hour, looking out for a second and is also home to merlins, of Lancaster and everyoneeveryone still wonderful vie Nearest mainline trains (✆ 0871 200 2233, woodland to Sugh mixed Dodds and Clough Head afford stile on your R (a wooden shelter short-eared owls and ring pays rent to the QuQueeeen.n. The ws of the Walla stop at Windermere, www.traveline-northwest. and walk alongandy Road. Turn Monument. On equally fine views, but without with a rusty corrugated metal ouzel. The 17th-century Pendle idyllic village green hohostssts a ce where the regular 555 bus co.uk). footbridge, followce over the + the crowds. To the west of the roof lies just beyond, on the L witches, outrageously accused colony of well-fed ducks and passing Garno the pavement, L 5 RICHARD PARKS to Keswick stops at Stanah valley is a small, much lower fell of the track). EATING & DRINKING: of murder by witchcraft, hailed BT’s 100,000th telephone box to a bridge crosck Wildlife Reser cross a stile. Fo the path to (Legburthwaite), close Puddleducks, in Dunsop over another stllow the field ed referred to as High Rigg (also from here too. What’s more, – handy, as there is no mobile Garnock (NS3074sing the River ve, 3 to the last leg of the Bridge, is a truly excellent on to a singl ile, then turn L ge known locally as Naddle Fell), 2. Cross the stile and follow Bowland isn’t really a forest phone reception in the valley. 18). walk (✆ 0871 200 2233, which stands on its own the clear path that climbs country café which (much of the area is moorland) Take the bridleway just before along here thre-track road. Wa 2 serves great cakes 3. Once across www.traveline.info). surrounded by its much loftier steeply up to Clough Head but retains the name as a former the bridge and follofolloww the paved countryside witough open lk EATING & DRINKING: (✆ 01200 448241). and cross Sandy the bridge, tur neighbours. This, too, affords via White Pike (just to the L royal hunting forest, as the way to a block of cottagcottages,es, then Stirling Castle. Ah great views of The Lodge in the SLEEPING: good track, contiRoad on to a n R START solitude and super views – but of the path, marked by a large New Forest does. But it proved on to the path running by the road swings L t t a cottage, the 1 FINISH Vale, Legburthwaite with much less effort – and is a cairn). A trig point marks the Wood End Farmhouse too arduous a journey for the River Dunsop. CrossCross a wooden mixed woodlandnuing through Road. 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Turn a flight of steper Garnock to r OS Explorer MAP 326 into Logie Roa 1:25,000 START d and climb ste R Climb the stepss at Kilwinning.each 1 into Hillfoots R www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk oad to reach theeply along Dovecot ,L turn R, head Wallace Monum Kilwinning Ma ane, turn L into around the ti ent car park. Go to reach the end of Dubbs Road cket office (pur L into the imp in Street and th tickets if you at the B752 (NS276420). Cross want to climb thchase Abbey (NS3064ressive Kilwinni en monument) o the road on to a lovely 5. Turn R and n to a path thate 33). ng climbs through at Map not to scale. woodland path, which leads on follow the soft san with further stun woodland to jo tractive Representation of 4. Return to the Kilwinning/ to parkland to Stevenston at Arran to a sea ning views of d A signposted pin a narrow roa OS Landranger MAP 57 Ardrossan signpost. Turn R Moorpark Road East. Turn L on 1:50,000 Climb up from wall at Saltcoa steeply to the bath on the R climbd. for Ardrossan and follow the to Station Road and follow the ts. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk pavement an the beach on Monument (NSase of the Wal s path to a road. Cross here and pavement over the level to a Scottish Inde shore througd walk above the extraordinary vie809957) and somelace pendence. Once continue on the path through a crossing at Stevenston train across, turn L on straight on ath aSaltcoats.
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