26th March 2017 - Boulsworth Hill
Walk Details
Distance walked: 7.6 miles
Total ascent: 1450 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 4 hrs
Route description: Wycoller-Pendle Way-Bronte Way-Pendle Way-Great Saucer Stones-Weather Stones-Boulsworth Hill-Abbot Stone-Pendle Way-Lumb Laithe Farm-Lumb Spout-Lodge Moss Farm-Lodge Hill Farm-Copy House Farm-Pendle Way-Wycoller
With another fine day in store I couldn't resist heading out this afternoon for a walk up Boulsworth Hill from Wycoller near Colne. You've got to take advantage of the good weather when it's around, for all I know next weekend could be a washout. More wall to wall blue skies and warm sunshine, though the visibility wasn't as good as it was yesterday. Heather being burnt on nearby moors didn't help.
From the car park outside Wycoller I walked down into the village, across the packhorse bridge and along the track that the trail of the Pendle Way takes. I left this trail for the Bronte Way which heads up the driveway of Dean House Farm and then up some fields to rejoin the Pendle Way. I then followed the trail west (it's also the Pennine Bridleway and Bronte Way at this point) below the slopes of Boulsworth Hill. Where a track leaves the trail and heads uphill to some grouse butts I left it and made my way uphill to the gritstone outcrops of Great Saucer Stones, then across to the Weather Stones before finally arriving at the trig point on the summit of Boulsworth Hill. After having lunch I made my way down by the concessionary path past the Abbot Stone to the track carrying the Pendle Way below. I followed this east until I reached Lumb Laithe Farm where I took a footpath on the left down some fields and across a brook to Lodge Moss Farm. I made a short diversion to see the waterfall of Lumb Spout along the way. There was then a short walk up a road to Lodge Hill Farm before taking the footpath on the left that heads east across many fields before heading down into Wycoller Dean to Copy House Farm. A path from here heads downhill to a footbridge over Wycoller Beck where I picked up the Pendle Way again back to Wycoller.
Total ascent: 1450 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 4 hrs
Route description: Wycoller-Pendle Way-Bronte Way-Pendle Way-Great Saucer Stones-Weather Stones-Boulsworth Hill-Abbot Stone-Pendle Way-Lumb Laithe Farm-Lumb Spout-Lodge Moss Farm-Lodge Hill Farm-Copy House Farm-Pendle Way-Wycoller
With another fine day in store I couldn't resist heading out this afternoon for a walk up Boulsworth Hill from Wycoller near Colne. You've got to take advantage of the good weather when it's around, for all I know next weekend could be a washout. More wall to wall blue skies and warm sunshine, though the visibility wasn't as good as it was yesterday. Heather being burnt on nearby moors didn't help.
From the car park outside Wycoller I walked down into the village, across the packhorse bridge and along the track that the trail of the Pendle Way takes. I left this trail for the Bronte Way which heads up the driveway of Dean House Farm and then up some fields to rejoin the Pendle Way. I then followed the trail west (it's also the Pennine Bridleway and Bronte Way at this point) below the slopes of Boulsworth Hill. Where a track leaves the trail and heads uphill to some grouse butts I left it and made my way uphill to the gritstone outcrops of Great Saucer Stones, then across to the Weather Stones before finally arriving at the trig point on the summit of Boulsworth Hill. After having lunch I made my way down by the concessionary path past the Abbot Stone to the track carrying the Pendle Way below. I followed this east until I reached Lumb Laithe Farm where I took a footpath on the left down some fields and across a brook to Lodge Moss Farm. I made a short diversion to see the waterfall of Lumb Spout along the way. There was then a short walk up a road to Lodge Hill Farm before taking the footpath on the left that heads east across many fields before heading down into Wycoller Dean to Copy House Farm. A path from here heads downhill to a footbridge over Wycoller Beck where I picked up the Pendle Way again back to Wycoller.
Route map
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At the packhorse bridge over Wycoller Beck
The hillside of Foster's Leap from the driveway to Dean House Farm
Looking back down Wycoller Dean
Turnhole Clough
On the Pendle Way beneath Boulsworth Hill
Kelbrook Moor, Thornton Moor and Pinhaw Beacon to the north as I reach Great Saucer Stones
Pendle Hill in the distance
Great Wolf Stones and Crow Hill to the east
Through gritstone boulders to the trig point..
Pendle Hill in the distance from the summit of Boulsworth Hill
The moors of Bronte Country to the east..
Then those above Calderdale to the south
Finally, the West Pennine Moors way in the distance
The Coldwell Reservoirs and Pendle Hill as I pass the Abbot Stone on the way down
The Forest of Trawden
On the footpath from Lumb Laithe Farm to Lumb Spout
A quick look at the little waterfall of Lumb Spout
Pendle Hill and Trawden
Crossing the moor back to Wycoller Dean...
Back in Wycoller