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29th June 2013 - A Rough Walk

Walk Details

Distance walked: 5.3 miles

Total ascent: 799 ft

OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors

Time taken: 2.5 hrs

Route descripion: Spring Wood-Clerk Hill-Wiswell Moor Houses-Wilkin Heys-Parsley Barn-The Rough-Wiswell Moor Houses-Clerk Hill-Spring Wood

I hadn't planned on going anywhere today but when it unexpectedly brightened up in the afternoon I took the opportunity to do this short walk.

The Rough is a westerly outlier of Pendle Hill as the moorland drops down into the Calder valley.

From the Spring Wood picnic site car park I took the footpath by Whalley golf course and across a few fields to reach the lane that would eventually take me to the Nick of Pendle. Once there I crossed the moorland of The Rough to reach the trig point. My route back was a pathless descent across access land to the track and I then retraced my steps back to the car park.

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Spring Wood below and Whalley Nab
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The hill of Great Hameldon in the distance and..
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.. the West Pennine Moors
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On the track and..
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..path that will take me to the Nick of Pendle
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I left the path just before it reaches the Nick of Pendle to cross the moorland of The Rough. Plenty of cotton grass as I look across to Longridge Fell, Fair Snape Fell and Totridge in the Forest of Bowland.
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A sea of cotton grass
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By the trig point that marks the high point of The Rough
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The bulk of Pendle Hill
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Across the Ribble Valley to Longridge Fell, Parlick, Fair Snape Fell and Totridge
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Waddington Fell
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and looking up the Ribble Valley. I could even make out Ingleborough and Penyghent.
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The village of Sabden below
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Looking across the Calder valley to the West Pennine Moors
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Great Hameldon from The Rough
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A pathless descent and..
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..back on track for Spring Wood

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