Thompson. H. Siddall, J. Tierney, M. Photography: reserved. rights All 2019. rights database or / and copyright Agency Environment Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2019; 2019; right database and copyright Crown © data Survey Ordnance Contains SUGGESTED START: Sabden car park, off Padiham Road, WHAT TO EXPECT: Starting in Sabden, this scenic route heads route. the trialling and developing in support opposite White Hart pub (SD 7793 3737) uphill out of the village towards Churn Clough reservoir and for Utilities United and Armstrong Duncan Cartwirght, Ian Council, Ratten Clough. The route then winds through farmland to return Parish Sabden Partnership, Landscape Hill Pendle to and Together DISTANCE: 9.2 km / 5.7 miles into Sabden. Fantastic views can be enjoyed from much of the Life Ribble supporting for Fund Heritage Lottery National the To TIME: 2 hrs 30 mins (plus sightseeing) route due to the elevated situation. There are numerous stiles on this route, it is therefore best suited to walkers with good you! Thank TERRAIN: Mostly bridleway and well maintained paths. Some mobility. Terrain underfoot is generally good and includes a iPhone. and Android on route steep climbs. app. to accompany this this accompany to app. Life Ribble mixture of fields, farm tracks and quiet lanes. Expect some uphill the Download www.ribblelifetogether.org DIFFICULTY: Moderate walking on leaving Sabden village. Please be aware of traffic on visit or more the sections of country lanes. Livestock are present in some of out find to code QR the Scan project. Together Life OS MAP: OS Landranger Map 103 the fields on this route. Please keep dogs on a lead. If cattle get Ribble the for routes circular of series a of part as You are here are You too close or become excitable, let the dog off the lead. Trust Rivers Ribble by created been has walk This 64 (Burnley - Clitheroe) LOOK OUT FOR: (see points on the map) users other and wildlife consider Code: Countryside the Follow • 1. Fish pass on Sabden Brook, drinks and food spare Carry Sabden • installed by Ribble Rivers Trust as part of Take a charged mobile phone, first aid kit, map and compass compass and map kit, aid first phone, mobile charged a Take Sabden car park (pay and display) the Ribble Life Together programme. The fish pass • conditions forecast for suitable clothing and boots sturdy Wear weir predates the neighbouring Victoria • Mill, and was built for Lower Sabden safely Enjoy Printworks, opposite Spring Lodge on Sabden car park Whalley Road. Having been redundant for Catchment Ribble The Sabden - Pendle - Sabden ’: Walk s ’ Let ’ Council County Lancashire • a number of decades, the weir was AONB) Bowland of (Forest Trail Family Valley Sabden restricting the natural migration of fish • Shippeys Stores, Village News, Sabden Post Office, species such as salmon and trout. Boulders have been set into Lyden-Braund the existing flat face of the weir to funnel the flow of water into a trails Nearby zig-zag channel, creating a greater depth of water for fish to swim up. The works have given Sabden Brook’s fish access to a The White Hart, Pendle Witch generations. further 7km of habitat upstream of the old weir. based on science, we aim to leave a positive legacy for future future for legacy positive a leave to aim we science, on based inspire and educate. Through practical environmental action, action, environmental practical Through educate. and inspire Sanwitches to river the using and access improving rivers, the of heritage the 2. The ‘Deerstones’ are not visible on this route, but can be Follow us: us: Follow visited via a detour at Churn Clough Reservoir. This frost-affected celebrates project The wildlife. and people for 2020 by system is working to create a healthier river river healthier a create to working is area from the Ice Age is home to numerous large millstone grit Together Life Ribble THE RIVERS: Sabden Brook has been an important part of boulders which supposedly show the Devil’s footprints. It is said Sabden’s history, enabling the textile industry in the village. that he carried stones in his apron as he leapt from Hambledon Sabden weir was an old stone-built weir on Sabden Brook Hill to Pendle. The feature is known locally as the ‘Devil’s footprints’. which originally supplied water for the Sabden Printworks. It Churn may also have provided water to an earlier cotton mill in the Clough late 18th century. Sabden Brook feeds into the River Calder, 3. Churn Clough Reservoir was Reservoir River Walks which then feeds into the Ribble. The Calder Catchment is constructed in 1892 to supply the characterised by mill towns such as Burnley, Nelson, Colne and growing population of East Lancashire. Accrington, which were at the forefront of the Industrial Before this time, mains water was Sabden Revolution. Rivers were crucial for supplying water to the supplied to Sabden from a reservoir fed various industries and as a result, became heavily modified by a spring located just below Black Hill. with the construction of weirs, sluices and mill races. The industries have since declined and most mills have been demolished, but the in-river structures that have been left behind continue to damage the riverine ecology. The fish 4. On leaving Ratten Clough Farm, you will This route celebrates the agricultural and passage project on Sabden brook has opened up new habitat pass a section of vaccary wall, a feature industrial heritage of the village of for migrating fish upstream of Sabden, meaning that salmon quite common to this area. Some of the walls Sabden, part of the detached Forest of are thought to date back to the 13th century. could return to Pendle Hill in years to come. Pendle section of the Forest of Bowland Vaccaries were islands of cultivated land Vaccary AONB. Sabden was a successful farming enclosed by flat stones to keep cattle in, within community from the 13th century and wall the extensive open hunting forest of Pendle. WILDLIFE: The upland fields ‘Vacca’ comes from the Latin name for cow. supplied meat, wool and milk to the lend themselves to Lapwing nearby settlements. The introduction of spotting wildlife such as mills to the village in the late 1700s meant hares and buzzards. Numerous 5. Dean Farm is one of Sabden’s original vaccaries (see point 4). that fabric printing and cotton weaving species of bird can be seen around The farm was built in 1574 and belonged to the family of Sir took over as the prominent industries. By Jonas Moore. Esteemed mathematician, Churn Clough reservoir. The wetland 1806 the Sabden textile industry habitat near The Old House supports a astronomer and cartographer, Sir Jonas Moore Dean Farm was nicknamed the ’Father of Time’ and employed almost 2000 workers. Sabden variety of wildlife such as snipe, teal and inscription mallards and many seasonal was crucial in establishing Greenwich Brook played an important role in visitors. Keep an eye out for lapwings Mean Time and the Greenwich Meridian. enabling industry in the village. near Dean Farm; this once common The Latin inscription carved above the farmland bird has suffered significant mullion windows at Dean Farm means: “This house was builded by Hugh More son declines in recent decades and is now of Chrestover More eldest brother son of a Red List species. Once back in Distance: 9.2 km / 5.7 miles Hare Leis Hugh wife in the year of our Lord 1574.” Sabden, look out for dippers on the Hugh More was the grandfather of Jonas Moore. brook. Difficulty: Moderate Go through the wooden gate and head towards the At the top right-hand corner of the field, go through the ROUTE DIRECTIONS E. Vaccary Walls Thefootbridge. changing Follow face the of path the towards River Ribble’s mouth wooden kissing gate. Continue straight uphill between the dry Once out of the farmyard, follow the track, crossing over Thethe channel wooden’s coursestile. has changed greatly, through both stone wall and fence until you reach the metal gate. Walk natural and human processes. It is an accreting (growing) a cattle grid. You will see the vaccary walls on your right straight towards the next gate and (see point 4). Follow the track until you reach a house coast as more sediment is building up than wearing away. A. Alongside Sabden Brook H. Towards Dean Farm go through the wooden kissing gate. (Stainscomb) and on the sharp right-hand bend, bear left Head to the south-west corner of the car park (near recycling Once over the stile, head straight Continue heading uphill, following down the field along the fence line. Take the small In the C19th, the Port of Preston was constructed to trade bins) and take the small gravel path. At the bottom of the across the field, aiming for the black & steps, turn left onto the path and follow the brook. Take the the well-trodden path until you wooden gate in the fence. Head diagonally right on the and transport goods, including those used in the textile industry.white post The in build the- updistance. of silt and Go sandover posedthe a challenge. So, footbridge over the brook and turn right, keeping the brook reach the wooden fingerpost. trodden path which will lead you down to a wooden stile. tostile. enable Keep sea the vessels fence to to navigate your right to the and docks, the River on your right. The path will bring you out on Watt Street. Once over the stile, step across the stream. Once out of Ribblehead wastowards dredged. the stileThis inresulted the fence.