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5th January 2020 - Barley to Blacko and back

Walk Details

Distance walked: 5.6 miles

Total ascent: 1007 ft

OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines

Time taken: 3.5 hrs

​Route description: Barley-Heys Lane Plantation-White Hough-Pendle Way-Stang Top Road-Brown Hill-Bank Ends-Blacko Foot Farm-Pendle Way-Water Meetings-Roughlee-Blacko Bar Road-Stang Top Road-White Hough-Pendle Way-Barley


Not exactly the best of days for my first walk of the new year but needs must. It threatened to brighten up when I returned home late in the morning after popping out for a few hours, so I decided to head to Barley and do a short walk to Blacko and back. Unfortunately it didn't improve and only got worse, with drizzle, heavy at times, for the rest of the afternoon, accompanied by a strong wind. At least it gave my waterproofs a test.

After parking on the road outside the car park in Barley I took the footpath up the hillside opposite to a track and followed it east through Heys Lane Plantation, then took a footpath on the left to the road below. I crossed the road onto the bridleway opposite to White Hough, where I picked up the Pendle Way and followed it east to Stang Top Road. I then walked up Stang Top Road past Offa Hill Cottage until I reached a footpath on the right, which I took and followed east around Brown Hill and down to Bank Ends, where I took the footpath southeast to Blacko Bar Road. I crossed the road to Blacko Foot Farm and took the Pendle Way, which I followed down to Water Meetings, then crossed the bridge over Pendle Water and onto the footpath southwest along the hillside above Pendle Water. I followed this path until I reached the Pendle Way down into Roughlee, where I then turned left and walked along Blacko Bar Road and then up Stang Top Road to a footpath on the left just past the caravan park. I followed this path across fields to White Hough where I picked up the Pendle Way for a return to Barley.

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Grey skies and drizzle over Stang Top Moor as I leave Barley
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Pendle Hill hidden in cloud as I look back..
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..on the bridleway to Thorney Holme...
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Looking across the valley of Pendle Water to Spen Height from the Pendle Way
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Looking back with Saddlers Height in the distance from the footpath round Brown Hill
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Blacko Hill ahead
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The lee of this barn beneath Brown Hill was a good place to shelter behind for a break
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Wheathead Height and Burn Moor
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Blacko beneath Blacko Hill
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Looking back to Brown Hill..
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..as I follow the footpath down to Water Meetings
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Pendle Water..
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Blacko Hill being lost in the mist and drizzle. The weather is going downhill again.
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Looking across the valley of Pendle Water to Wheathead Height, Burn Moor, White Moor and Blacko Hill
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Heading down to Roughlee
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Crossing Pendle Water
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Pendle Water in Roughlee
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Gloomy skies across to Spen Height as I head back to Barley
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Back in Barley and it's dark end to a gloomy day

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