Brontes In Pendle

I printed this walk off the Visit Lancashire website as its fairly close to home and looked interesting.  The walk was supposed to start in Trawden go to Wycoller and back, but when I got to Trawden there was nowhere to park, there was a Scarecrow festival and fete on and with it being a really hot day it was packed. So I went over to Wycoller and parked there to do the walk from half way round and go to Trawden and back.  

The hardest part of any walk is setting off in the right direction – I walked down to Wycoller Hall and found the path to take me up into Trawden Forest, steep steps up onto the tops- 

from here it was a fairly straight-forward walk over various stiles and through fields to eventually walk alongside Trawden brook into Trawden. 

As I seemed to have got to Trawden pretty easily and quickly I stopped for an ice- cream before setting off again up some old tram-lines. 

I then took a stile down to the left through a field and back up the opposite hill – back to a farm I’d passed on the way in to Trawden.  Again it was walking through fields and gates and over stiles – at one farm it was straight through the farmyard.  The farmer’s wife shouted go through the gate that’s the path (why don’t they put a sign so you don’t wander about in the wrong place).  The path went down to a stream where I could have gone to a waterfall at Lumb Spout – but it was hot and dry and I thought the waterfall may have even dried out with the hot weather we’ve been having so I turned left to a ladder stile in the field corner.  Eventually coming to a tarmac road to go left around Boulsworth Hill  

this is part of the Pennine Bridleway passing a signpost that said 2 ½ miles to Wycoller – it was really hot up on the hilltop with no shade and no option but to keep going – I was on familiar ground now I have walked this path before on a different walk. 

I eventually dropped down to a bridge and stile to follow a stream on my right back into Wycoller.  

The walk said it was a pleasant 4 ½ mile walk but when I checked my fitbit this was a 7 ½ mile walk no wonder I was tired at the end of it.  It was good and I would do it again but this time I would be more prepared.