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29th December 2018 - Thieveley Pike

Walk Details

Distance walked: 6.4 miles

Total ascent: 966 ft

OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines

Time taken: 3 hrs

Route description: Crown Point Road-White Hill-Rossendale Way-Pennine Bridleway-Deerplay Moor-Thieveley Pike-Dean Scout-Buckley Wood-Black Clough-Stone House Edge-Cow Side-Pennine Bridleway-White Hill-
Crown Point Road

It's long way from being the perfect winter's day but at least the sun is out after days of grey skies and gloom. It's also very windy so I decided to stay local and do a walk just a few miles from home across the moors at the northern end of Rossendale. I've been to the summit of Thieveley Pike several times but this was a new way to reach it and was a nice way of spending a few hours getting some fresh air and exercise and admiring the winter colours of the moors.

After parking in the layby on Crown Point Road I crossed the road and took the footpath, track and bridleway across White Hill to a crossroads of bridleways where I turned left and took the trail of the Rossendale Way. I soon reached another bridleway junction where I turned left again and took the Pennine Bridleway. I followed this east across the B6238 and then the A671 where I left it and took the bridleway east across Deerplay Moor to the trig point on Thieveley Pike. After a break for lunch I took the path north down the moor to Dean Scout and then the path west through Buckley Wood, across Black Clough and then up and over Stone House Edge. At the western end of Stone House Edge I took the path south to and past Cow Side to reach the Pennine Bridleway which I followed back to the B6238. After crossing the road I used a woodland trail path on the right to get back to the layby on Crown Point Road.

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On the track across White Hill after leaving the layby on Crown Point Road
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Looking south across Rossendale
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A bit further on and the view opens up to the moorland on the western side of Rossendale
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The sunshine brings out the winter colours of the moors
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Looking back along the bridleway to White Hill
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Compston's Cross. At a junction of pack-horse trails.
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On the trail of the Rossendale Way
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Joining the Pennine Bridleway
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Great moorland colours as I follow the bridleway towards Burnley Road....
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Deerplay Moor ahead
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Looking back to the moorland that I've walked across with Hameldon Hill in the distance from the bridleway onto Deerplay Moor
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Crossing the top of Black Clough with Boulsworth Hill in the distance
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Hameldon in the distance to the west from Deerplay Moor
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and Pendle Hill to the north
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At the trig point on Thieveley Pike
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Boulsworth Hill on the left across to Bride Stones Moor on the right
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Hameldon Hill on the left and Pendle Hill on the right
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Looking across Rossendale
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Deerplay Moor to Hameldon Hill as I leave Thieveley Pike
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Pendle Hill and Burnley with Buckley Wood and Holme Chapel below
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Looking east along the Cliviger gorge with Thieveley Scout on the right
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Alder catkins in Buckley Wood
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Black Clough
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The Cliviger gorge from Stone House Edge
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Crown Point..
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..and Pendle Hill from Stone House Edge
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Looking back from the Pennine Bridleway to Cow Side and Stone House Edge
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On the bridleway back to Crown Point Road having crossed the A671
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Low sun on winter moors
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Clough Bottom Reservoir
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The light of the setting sun across the moors to finish with

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