28th July 2018 - Boulsworth Hill
Walk Details
Distance walked: 7.7 miles
Total ascent: 1553 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 3 hrs
Route description: Wycoller-Bronte Way-Dean House Farm-Bronte Way-Great Saucer Stones-Boulsworth Hill-Bronte Way-Dean House Farm-Bronte Way-Wycoller
Another weekend of changeable weather so I made no definite plans about where to go and today is the better day of the two. I left it until after lunchtime before heading to Wycoller to do a walk up Boulsworth Hill. There are showers in the forecast so let's see if I get lucky or not.
From the car park above Wycoller I walked down into and through the hamlet and across the packhorse bridge. I then followed the trail of the Bronte Way by Wycoller Beck, up to and past Dean House Farm to where it joins the Pennine Bridleway. The trail was then followed west until I reached a quadbike track and then a line of grouse butts to follow up the hillside to Great Saucer Stones. From there I made my way to the trig point and summit of Boulsworth Hill. My route back was the path down by the Abbot Stone to the Pennine Bridleway and then back to Wycoller by retracing my steps.
Total ascent: 1553 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 3 hrs
Route description: Wycoller-Bronte Way-Dean House Farm-Bronte Way-Great Saucer Stones-Boulsworth Hill-Bronte Way-Dean House Farm-Bronte Way-Wycoller
Another weekend of changeable weather so I made no definite plans about where to go and today is the better day of the two. I left it until after lunchtime before heading to Wycoller to do a walk up Boulsworth Hill. There are showers in the forecast so let's see if I get lucky or not.
From the car park above Wycoller I walked down into and through the hamlet and across the packhorse bridge. I then followed the trail of the Bronte Way by Wycoller Beck, up to and past Dean House Farm to where it joins the Pennine Bridleway. The trail was then followed west until I reached a quadbike track and then a line of grouse butts to follow up the hillside to Great Saucer Stones. From there I made my way to the trig point and summit of Boulsworth Hill. My route back was the path down by the Abbot Stone to the Pennine Bridleway and then back to Wycoller by retracing my steps.
Route map
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The packhorse bridge in Wycoller
Looking across to the hillside of Foster's Leap
Looking down the valley of Wycoller Dean as I reach the Pennine Bridleway
On the Pennine Bridleway beneath Boulsworth Hill
It's a lovely summer's afternoon at the moment
Pendle Hill as I head up Boulsworth Hill
Looking across the Forest of Trawden to the distant hills of the Yorkshire Dales
The first shower that I get caught by gives me a glancing blow as I arrive on Great Saucer Stones
The Forest of Trawden from Great Saucer Stones
The shower moves away to the east over Bronte Country
Dramatic skies from the summit of Boulsworth Hill
They're no less dramatic looking south across Calderdale
The West Pennine Moors in the distance, and the next shower
The hills of the Yorkshire Dales in the distance from the trig point
Along with Wolf Stones and Crow Hill
That next shower reaches me and I take shelter behind the Abbot Stone
Pendle Hill in sunshine as the shower starts to clear
The sun is back out so I make quick progress down to the Pennine Bridleway....
Clear blue skies behind me
On the Pennine Bridleway back to Wycoller
Things are going downhill behind me, and I can hear distant thunder
I didn't make it back to Wycoller before the thunderstorm broke. The rain became torrential with hail thrown in for good measure after I finished recording this video.