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8th August 2012 - Bull Hill & Holcombe Moor

Walk Details

Distance walked: 4.6 miles

Total ascent: 735 ft

OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors

Time taken: 2 hrs

Route description: Layby on B6214 at Buckden Wood-Chatterton Close-Peel Tower-Harcles Hill-Bull Hill-Layby on B6214 at Buckden Wood

At last. I've got the weather and the opportunity to use it to do this evening walk.

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It was pretty dark in Buckden Wood at the start of the walk but it did mean that the sun shining through the trees at the top of the wood made a nice picture
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A fine summers evening in Rossendale
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The view towards Manchester from below Peel Tower
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Peel Tower
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Holcombe Moor and Peel Tower from Harcles Hill. Someone has gone to a lot of effort to build the cairn that now stands here. It wasn't there when I was last here at the end of May.
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Rossendale from Harcles Hill
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The Pilgrims Cross memorial stone against the backdrop of Holcombe Moor
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Rossendale from the path round Bull Hill
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Winter Hill from the trig point on Bull Hill
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Cowpe Lowe and Scout Moor
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Lovely colours in this shot looking north across the West Pennine Moors to Pendle Hill
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Zooming in on Pendle Hill
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Rossendale below as the sun sets
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One last shot across the West Pennine Moors. The top in the middle of the picture is Tor Hill.

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