Colne Water

This looked a nice easy walk in the book and I haven’t walked it before.  It started at the Ball Grove Park nature reserve. 

This was a lovely place to wander round – it was also pushchair/wheelchair friendly.  I started off walking up past the pond and up alongside the stream eventually coming to a footbridge across Colne water. 

From there a flagged path ran along away from the stream at the end it dropped back down crossing the stream again until I came out at Covey Bridge at Laneshaw Bridge. 

Here I walked up the road (the one that takes you to Wycoller) to a stile on the left.  Now I was looking towards Boulsworth Hill.  The directions now took me through several fields and stiles turning towards Pendle Hill. 

After keeping close through paths and over stiles I came to a drive and road at Hill Top Winewall.  Here were some lovely old houses with beautiful stone doorways and mullioned windows.  This was a lovely hamlet that I never even knew existed.  I turned down a snicket past a steep field with donkeys to drop onto a small road then dropping again until I came out onto Trawden Road. 

I walked along here a short distance to then take a path on the left up past a house to a bridle gate and up to the top of the hill on the way I passed the farmer re-building his stone wall – he said it helped to keep the sheep sheltered in the bad weather and was a lot better than fencing.  At the top there was a small enclosure on my right with sheep and lambs.  One of them came running up to the wall (usually they run off to fnd their mums).  As I walked along and came to a gate it ran up to the gate and stuck

its head through the bars.  This little lamb had had a lot of petting I think. 

From here I carried on past a house and through a gate in the yard to drop down through a field to the bottom corner.Here a path lead through some woodland and down to back road and across a bridge.  Here I turned right alongside the stream until eventually stone steps took me back on to Trawden Road from here I turned right to get back to Ball Grove Park.

This had been a lovely walk and the café in the park looked nice too. Although I think the walk was nearer 5 miles than 4 miles.