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22nd June 2020 - Pendle Hill

Walk Details

​Distance walked: 7.0 miles

Total ascent: 1012 ft

OS map used: OL41 - Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale

Time taken: 3.5 hrs


​Route description: Nick of Pendle-Pendleton Moor-Ogden Clough-Pendle Hill-Downham Moor-Worston Moor-Scout Cairn-Mearley Moor-Pendleton Moor-Nick of Pendle

I've got the day off work, so I decided to head this afternoon and make the most of a fine day. It didn't take me long to decide on a walk up Pendle Hill, as it's been a long seven months since my last one. I certainly hadn't intended there to be such a gap, but when the full lockdown restrictions were in place I wasn't comfortable with walking on Pendle Hill, given that it's so busy. The lifting of restrictions and it being a weekday, so relatively quiet, meant I was comfortable with today. There's some hot weather forecast for this week but today is the day before that arrives. So, although it was quite warm and humid, there was a lot of cloud around and only a little sunshine from time to time.

​​From my starting point at one of the laybys on the road across the Nick of Pendle I made my way up onto Pendleton Moor, making a short diversion to Deerstones before returning to the path to Ogden Clough. I kept on the path as it made its way into Ogden Clough and followed it all the way up to the trig point and summit. I then crossed the stile onto Downham Moor, followed the path west, and crossed the stile onto Worston Moor to reach the Scout Cairn. I then walked across Mearley Moor before crossing the top of Howcroft Brook to pick up the path across Pendleton Moor back to the Nick of Pendle.

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Looking across the Ribble Valley to Longridge Fell, Parlick, Fair Snape Fell, Totridge, and Easington Fell as I set off from the Nick of Pendle
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and looking down the Ribble Valley
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Churn Clough Reservoir, Black Hill and Sabden from Deerstones
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Pendleton Moor and the Ribble Valley
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Heading for Ogden Clough
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Ogden Clough as I follow the path upstream..
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On the flagged path to the summit from Ogden Clough
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Looking back to Ogden Clough with the Ribble Valley in the distance
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The fells of the Forest of Bowland beyond the nearby Downham Moor
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On the summit of Pendle Hill with the Black Moss Reservoirs and Barley below
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The view north to the Yorkshire Dales is a little on the hazy side
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The Forest of Bowland in the distance beyond Downham Moor
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One of a number of waymarkers that have appeared recently, and since I started from the Nick of Pendle, I have no doubts about which way I should go
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On Downham Moor and looking east to Weets Hill, with Barden Moor in the distance
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Ingleborough, Penyghent and Fountains Fell to the north
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Heading west across Downham Moor
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A sea of grass
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The Forest of Bowland from the pool on Downham Moor..
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..and looking to Ingleborough and Penyghent in the Yorkshire Dales. More rain is still needed to fill it.
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Looking back to the summit of Pendle Hill
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Across the stile onto Worston Moor
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The Ribble Valley below, with Ingleborough, Penyghent and Fountains Fell in the distance
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Looking across the Ribble Valley and Clitheroe to Longridge Fell, Parlick, Fair Snape Fell and Totridge..
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..and up the Ribble Valley to the Yorkshire Dales
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Heading across Worston Moor..
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..to the Scout Cairn
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The path onto Mearley Moor has had some work done on it. Time will be required for it to blend in.
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Heading across Mearley Moor
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Views across the Ribble Valley to the distant Yorkshire Dales from Mearley Moor...
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Longridge Fell, Parlick, Fair Snape Fell and Totridge from the cairn at the end of Mearley Moor
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The moorland of The Rough and the Ribble Valley
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The West Pennine Moors in the distance
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Heading back down to the Nick of Pendle with views across the Ribble Valley...
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