30th December 2024 - Weets Hill
Walk Details
Distance walked: 8.2 miles
Total ascent: 1230 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 4 hrs
Route description: Foulridge-Hey-Hey Fold-Booth House Farm-High Lane-Copy Nook-Lister Well Road-Higher View Farm-Duck Pond Farm-Weets Hill-Weets House Farm-Gisburn Old Road-Hollin Hall-Barnoldswick Road-Slipper Hill Reservoir-Reedymoor Lane-B6251-Foulridge
My final walk of the year, and it's from home. A break in the weather gave me the opportunity for a walk up Weets Hill and back. Setting off late in the morning, and taking one of my usual routes, I enjoyed plenty of winter sunshine as I made the journey to its top. However, by then it was starting to cloud over and the walk back home was done under largely cloudy skies. It was mild and windy throughout, and especially windy on the summit of Weets Hill.
Setting off from home I walked to the western end of Station Road and took the footpath straight up the hill and across fields to the corner of Whitemoor Road. Here I turned right and took a lane past some houses, then a footpath on the right down to Hey Fold. The next bit was a little complicated as I took the footpath right at Hey Fold, then left across the crest of a little hill and past Hullet Hall down to County Brook Lane. I briefly walked down the lane, took a footpath on the left through a patch of woodland and across a bridge over County Brook, before resuming following footpaths north across fields past Wood End Farm to Booth House Farm, where I took a footpath up a field to High Lane. I then walked a short distance north along High Lane, then took a track on the left and followed it uphill past Copy Nook to the bridleway of Lister Well Road. I then walked down Lister Well Road until I reached a gate on the left and a footpath across access land to Higher View Farm at the top of Folly Lane. I turned left and followed the bridleway up to Duck Pond Farm, then the footpath round the farm and onto access land, before turning right and following a path by a wall to the top of Weets Hill. After taking in the view I took the Pendle Way to reach Weets House Farm at the top of Gisburn Old Road. I then walked down Gisburn Old Road until I reached Star Hall Farm where I took the Pendle Way on the right across fields. I left the Pendle Way above Admergill Pasture Cottage for a footpath by a wall, before crossing the wall and taking a footpath down through fields to Hollin Hall on Barnoldswick Road. I crossed the road and took the footpath opposite down through fields to where it meets the lane by Slipper Hill Reservoir. I then took the footpath round Slipper Hill Reservoir to reach a track past Sand Hall to reach Reedymoor Lane, which I walked north along to the B6251 for a return to Foulridge and home.
Total ascent: 1230 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 4 hrs
Route description: Foulridge-Hey-Hey Fold-Booth House Farm-High Lane-Copy Nook-Lister Well Road-Higher View Farm-Duck Pond Farm-Weets Hill-Weets House Farm-Gisburn Old Road-Hollin Hall-Barnoldswick Road-Slipper Hill Reservoir-Reedymoor Lane-B6251-Foulridge
My final walk of the year, and it's from home. A break in the weather gave me the opportunity for a walk up Weets Hill and back. Setting off late in the morning, and taking one of my usual routes, I enjoyed plenty of winter sunshine as I made the journey to its top. However, by then it was starting to cloud over and the walk back home was done under largely cloudy skies. It was mild and windy throughout, and especially windy on the summit of Weets Hill.
Setting off from home I walked to the western end of Station Road and took the footpath straight up the hill and across fields to the corner of Whitemoor Road. Here I turned right and took a lane past some houses, then a footpath on the right down to Hey Fold. The next bit was a little complicated as I took the footpath right at Hey Fold, then left across the crest of a little hill and past Hullet Hall down to County Brook Lane. I briefly walked down the lane, took a footpath on the left through a patch of woodland and across a bridge over County Brook, before resuming following footpaths north across fields past Wood End Farm to Booth House Farm, where I took a footpath up a field to High Lane. I then walked a short distance north along High Lane, then took a track on the left and followed it uphill past Copy Nook to the bridleway of Lister Well Road. I then walked down Lister Well Road until I reached a gate on the left and a footpath across access land to Higher View Farm at the top of Folly Lane. I turned left and followed the bridleway up to Duck Pond Farm, then the footpath round the farm and onto access land, before turning right and following a path by a wall to the top of Weets Hill. After taking in the view I took the Pendle Way to reach Weets House Farm at the top of Gisburn Old Road. I then walked down Gisburn Old Road until I reached Star Hall Farm where I took the Pendle Way on the right across fields. I left the Pendle Way above Admergill Pasture Cottage for a footpath by a wall, before crossing the wall and taking a footpath down through fields to Hollin Hall on Barnoldswick Road. I crossed the road and took the footpath opposite down through fields to where it meets the lane by Slipper Hill Reservoir. I then took the footpath round Slipper Hill Reservoir to reach a track past Sand Hall to reach Reedymoor Lane, which I walked north along to the B6251 for a return to Foulridge and home.
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Leaving Foulridge behind with Boulsworth Hill in the distance
Blue skies above to lift the spirits
Taking the path north to County Brook, and Kelbrook Moor and Bleara Moor come into view on the right..
Bare trees against blue skies
Bleara Moor, Kelbrook and Kelbrook Moor as I take the path from Booth House Farm up to High Lane
On the track past Copy Nook up onto Lad Lowe Hill
Looking back with Barden Moor, Thornton Moor and Bleara Moor in the distance
Boulsworth Hill from the pool on Lad Lowe Hill
Barden Moor in the distance from the gate onto access land on Lad Lowe Hill
Onto the bridleway of Lister Well Road
Heading down Lister Well Road
Barnoldswick below, Barden Moor, and Thornton Moor from the path across the hillside from Lister Well Road to Higher View Farm
Approaching Higher View Farm at the top of Folly Lane
Heading up the bridleway to Duck Pond Farm
Looking back down the bridleway and I can just about make out the moors around Settle and Malham in the distance
Past Duck Pond Farm and onto access land on Weets Hill. Looking across to a cloud-topped Pendle Hill.
Blacko Hill and the Forest of Pendle, with the moors above Burnley in the distance
At the eastern end of the top of Weets Hill. The town of Barnoldswick below with Barden Moor and Pinhaw Beacon in the distance.
The top of Pendle Hill from the eastern end of the summit
Pendle Hill from the trig point on Weets Hill
Barden Moor to the northeast
Boulsworth Hill in the distance to the southeast
Heading for Weets House Farm
Pendle Hill, and looking across the Ribble Valley to the Forest of Bowland
Heading down Gisburn Old Road with Boulsworth Hill in the distance
Blacko Hill, the Forest of Pendle and Pendle Hill as I follow the Pendle Way towards Blacko Hill..
On Blacko Hill
Ickornshaw Moor and Boulsworth Hill in the distance as I head down from Blacko Hill
By Slipper Hill Reservoir
Arriving back in Foulridge