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.
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.
Route map
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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
A fine summers evening in Rossendale
The view towards Manchester from below Peel Tower
Peel Tower
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.
Rossendale from Harcles Hill
The Pilgrims Cross memorial stone against the backdrop of Holcombe Moor
Rossendale from the path round Bull Hill
Winter Hill from the trig point on Bull Hill
Cowpe Lowe and Scout Moor
Lovely colours in this shot looking north across the West Pennine Moors to Pendle Hill
Zooming in on Pendle Hill
Rossendale below as the sun sets
One last shot across the West Pennine Moors. The top in the middle of the picture is Tor Hill.