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25th October 2020 - Twiston Moor and Wheathead Height

Walk Details

Distance walked: 11.1 miles

Total ascent: 1838 ft

OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines

Time taken: 6 hrs

Route description: Blacko Bar Road-Blacko Foot Farm-Pendle Way-Water Meetings-Pasture Lane-Noggarth Cottage-Ridge Lane-Noggarth Lane-Higher Graystones Farm-Jinny Lane-Newchurch in Pendle-Barley Fold-Barley-Pendle Way-White Hough-Stang Top Road-Black Moss Road-Twiston Moor-Rimington Moor-Wheathead Height-Wheathead Lane-Pendle Way-Blacko Bar Road


I may be restricted to walking locally but I consider myself very lucky to have access to some great countryside right on my doorstep. For my walk this weekend I've driven just a couple of miles from home to nearby Blacko for a walk across the moors of the Forest of Pendle. There was a chance of showers in the forecast but none turned up, so I enjoyed a lovely autumn day with lots of sunny spells and great visibility, which meant that I had fantastic views across the Ribble Valley to the Forest of Bowland and the Yorkshire Dales.

From where I parked in the layby on Blacko Bar Road I walked the short distance uphill to Blacko Foot Farm and took the Pendle Way on the left down to Water Meetings. I crossed the bridge over Pendle Water and then took the footpath on the right up the hillside to reach Pasture Lane above Roughlee. I then crossed Pasture Lane and took the track opposite and followed this until it reached Ridgaling Farm, where I then took a footpath along the crest of the hill to Ridge Lane at Noggarth Cottage. After a walk southwest along Noggarth Lane I took the fourth footpath on the right, which I followed north past Higher Graystones Farm and down to Jinny Lane for a walk up the road to Newchurch-in-Pendle. I then walked up Cross Lane through Newchurch-in-Pendle to the left hand bend at the top of the hill where I took the track on the right down to Barley Fold. From Barley Fold I took a footpath down to Barley Road in Barley, where I crossed the road and took the path across a footbridge over White Hough Water and then the Pendle Way to White Hough. At the bridge over White Hough Water I went straight on along a footpath by White Hough Water before heading up a path to join the Pendle Way again to reach Stang Top Road. I then walked north along Stang Top Road, and then west along Black Moss Road to the left hand bend above Upper Black Moss Reservoir, where I took a footpath on the right. This took me east to a junction of walls and a footpath north across Twiston Moor, then east to a track above Smithy Fold and then a footpath across Clough Beck and east across Rimington Moor. At the eastern end of Rimington Moor I took the footpath signposted for Jackson's House, which I followed south up onto Wheathead Height to reach the top of the track down from Wheathead Height to Wheathead Lane. I then walked down Wheathead Lane to the bridge over Admergill Water where I joined the Pendle Way, which I followed south back to where I was parked on Blacko Bar Road.

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Blacko Hill as I set off on the Pendle Way
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Looking back to the wooded slopes of Brown Hill
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Heading down to Water Meetings
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Pendle Water from the bridge at Water Meetings
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From Water Meetings I take the footpath up the hillside to Pasture Lane above Roughlee
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I get a great view across to Pendle Hill, with Roughlee in the valley below
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Looking back to Blacko and Blacko Hill
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Ickornshaw Moor and Boulsworth Hill in the distance beyond Colne and Nelson
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On Noggarth Height, heading for Noggarth Cottage
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Saddlers Height and Newchurch-in-Pendle with Pendle Hill in the distance, from above Higher Graystones Farm
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Crossing the valley of Pendle Water..
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Spen Height and the hamlet of Spen Brook as I reach Jinny Lane
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Heading up Jinny Lane to Newchurch-in-Pendle..
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Pendle Hill and Barley from Newchurch-in-Pendle
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On the footpath to Barley Fold with Aitken Wood and Stang Top Moor ahead
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Views of Pendle Hill and Barley from Barley Fold..
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On the footpath down to Barley
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Can't resist taking another photo of Pendle Hill
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Crossing White Hough Water in Pendle
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On the path by White Hough Water to Roughlee
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Looking across to Noggarth Height and Spen Height as I follow the footpath up to Stang Top Road
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A bit of road walking to come as I head up Stang Top Road
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Looking back on Stang Top Road with the moors above Burnley in the distance
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Burn Moor, Blacko Hill and Blacko as I look over the wall to my right
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Wheathead Height ahead. I'll be up there in a few hours time.
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Pendle Hill from Stang Top Road
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and from Black Moss Road
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The Black Moss Reservoirs from Black Moss Road
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Pendle Hill as I reach Twiston Moor
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Heading north across Twiston Moor
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The Forest of Bowland appears in the distance
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I briefly thought about using this track across the moor but it was really waterlogged..
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More of the Forest of Bowland appears as I approach the northern end of the moor..
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..along with the first glimpses of the western fells of the Yorkshire Dales
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The impressive profile of Pendle Hill
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The fantastic view across the Ribble Valley to the Yorkshire Dales, including Ingleborough and Penyghent, from Twiston Moor
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and from above Smithy Fold
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Then there's Ingleborough, Penyghent, the hills above Settle and Malham, and Great Whernside in the distance from the track above Smithy Fold
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Looking across the Ribble Valley to the Forest of Bowland
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and back to Pendle Hill
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The Forest of Bowland and Ingleborough from the western end of Rimington Moor
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Pendle Hill..
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..and Weets Hill and Wheathead Height as I follow the footpath east across Rimington Moor
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These Peak and Northern Footpath Society signs are new. I'm taking the footpath signposted to Jackson's House from the far one.
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A glorious view across the Ribble Valley to the Forest of Bowland, Ingleborough and Penyghent as I head south up onto Wheathead Height
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The ruins of Firber House, and Pendle Hill
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One last shot of that view to the north
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The Black Moss Reservoirs and Pendle Hill
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Boulsworth Hill in the distance as I reach the southern end of Wheathead Height
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Following the track from Wheathead Height down to Wheathead Lane..
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I leave Wheathead Lane for the Pendle Way at the bridge over Admergill Water
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I don't cross this footbridge over Admergill Water, but keep by the banks of Admergill Water back to Blacko Bar Road..
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