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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.
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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.

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The packhorse bridge in Wycoller
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Looking across to the hillside of Foster's Leap
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Looking down the valley of Wycoller Dean as I reach the Pennine Bridleway
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On the Pennine Bridleway beneath Boulsworth Hill
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It's a lovely summer's afternoon at the moment
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Pendle Hill as I head up Boulsworth Hill
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Looking across the Forest of Trawden to the distant hills of the Yorkshire Dales
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The first shower that I get caught by gives me a glancing blow as I arrive on Great Saucer Stones
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The Forest of Trawden from Great Saucer Stones
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The shower moves away to the east over Bronte Country
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Dramatic skies from the summit of Boulsworth Hill
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They're no less dramatic looking south across Calderdale
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The West Pennine Moors in the distance, and the next shower
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The hills of the Yorkshire Dales in the distance from the trig point
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Along with Wolf Stones and Crow Hill
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That next shower reaches me and I take shelter behind the Abbot Stone
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Pendle Hill in sunshine as the shower starts to clear
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The sun is back out so I make quick progress down to the Pennine Bridleway....
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Clear blue skies behind me
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On the Pennine Bridleway back to Wycoller
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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.

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