24th March 2018 - Anglezarke Moor
Walk Details
Distance walked: 8.6 miles
Total ascent: 1362 ft
OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors
Time taken: 4.5 hrs
Route description: White Coppice-Stronstrey Bank-Moor Road-Jepson's Gate-Lead Mines Clough-Lower Hempshaw's-Higher Hempshaw's-Hordern Pasture-Spitlers Edge-Great Hill-Drinkwaters-White Coppice
A fine weekend at last and with several of them being lost to bad weather already this year I'm going to make the most of it and go for a walk on both days. Somewhere close to home today and a walk that I've done a few times recently, Anglezarke Moor from White Coppice in the West Pennine Moors. For a change I did the route the other way round and shortened it a little by using Moor Road and a bridleway to Lead Mines Clough instead of the paths by Anglezarke Reservoir. A mix of cloud and spring sunshine was enjoyed and that made for great colours on the moors.
From where I parked in White Coppice I walked past the cricket club ground and crossed The Goit to take the footpath south beneath Stronstrey Bank to Moor Road. I then walked up Moor Road until I reached a sharp right hand bend where I took the bridleway from Jepson's Gate down to Lead Mines Clough. After crossing Limestone Brook I followed a track east across the hillside until it reached the ruins of Lower and Higher Hempshaw's and the path up to Horden Pasture. The moorland stretch of the walk came next as I headed north over Spitlers Edge to Great Hill. The path west from Great Hill took me back down to White Coppice.
Total ascent: 1362 ft
OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors
Time taken: 4.5 hrs
Route description: White Coppice-Stronstrey Bank-Moor Road-Jepson's Gate-Lead Mines Clough-Lower Hempshaw's-Higher Hempshaw's-Hordern Pasture-Spitlers Edge-Great Hill-Drinkwaters-White Coppice
A fine weekend at last and with several of them being lost to bad weather already this year I'm going to make the most of it and go for a walk on both days. Somewhere close to home today and a walk that I've done a few times recently, Anglezarke Moor from White Coppice in the West Pennine Moors. For a change I did the route the other way round and shortened it a little by using Moor Road and a bridleway to Lead Mines Clough instead of the paths by Anglezarke Reservoir. A mix of cloud and spring sunshine was enjoyed and that made for great colours on the moors.
From where I parked in White Coppice I walked past the cricket club ground and crossed The Goit to take the footpath south beneath Stronstrey Bank to Moor Road. I then walked up Moor Road until I reached a sharp right hand bend where I took the bridleway from Jepson's Gate down to Lead Mines Clough. After crossing Limestone Brook I followed a track east across the hillside until it reached the ruins of Lower and Higher Hempshaw's and the path up to Horden Pasture. The moorland stretch of the walk came next as I headed north over Spitlers Edge to Great Hill. The path west from Great Hill took me back down to White Coppice.
Route map
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With barely a breath of wind there are great reflections in one of the fishing lodges at White Coppice this morning
Walking past the ground of the White Coppice Cricket Club
Looking back as I pass beneath Stronstrey Bank
On Moor Road with the town of Chorley to the west
On the bridleway from Jepson's Gate to Lead Mines Clough
Limestone Brook in Lead Mines Clough
On the path from Lead Mines Clough to Hordern Pasture..
Looking back as I near the top of the path
On the path up onto Splitlers Edge
Turning round for a view of Winter Hill
Turton Moor and Turton Heights to the east
A bit of sunshine makes all the difference to the look and feel of the day as I head north across the moor to Great Hill...
Looking east to Darwen Moor..
..and Turton Moor
On the summit of Great Hill. A convenient place to take a break.
The view from Great Hill. The fells of the Forest of Bowland in the distance to the north.
The shadowed outline of Pendle Hill in the distance
Darwen Moor and Turton Moor
Winter Hill behind Spitlers Edge
Dean Black Brook and the bulk of Anglezarke Moor
The path west from Great Hill will take me back down to White Coppice
There are great colours on the moors beneath the blue skies of a fine spring afternoon..
Looking back to the top of Great Hill
The final descent to White Coppice