Monday 2nd September 2024
Monthly Short Walk- Greenmount, Holcombe Woods and Moors.
For the second time this month we have had to change the route of our advertised walk, due to a yellow weather warning being posted on the Met. office’s website. We decided to change the planned route to one that did not include going onto the moors. Starting from Greenmount we walked into Holcombe Brook, through Redisher Wood, where we turned left onto Holcombe Old Road and walked along the cobbles as far as Darul Uloom, where we turned right and crossed Lumb Carr Road. After walking for a short distance, along the track opposite, we climbed over a difficult stile that was built into the stone wall and headed to Tagg Wood. Once through the wood we turned left and continued to climb through the trees to The Hare & Hounds, where we stopped for an early coffee break.
Holcombe Old Road
Difficult stile
Tagg Wood
The Hare & Hounds
It was at this point where we changed our original route and instead of climbing onto the moors, we headed down through Carr Wood into Ramsbottom. After turning left on Carr Street, we walked for a short distance before turning right into Callender Street, which we followed down to Bolton Road. From here we continued along familiar footpaths into Nuttall Park where we joined the path, which follows the River Irwell into Summerseat.
Carr Street
Nuttall Park
On the way we stopped to view the work being undertaken by United Utilities, in the area that once was the site of Nuttall Village. The multi million project consists of sinking a storm water storage tank, along the side of the Irwell, that will hold three and a half million litres of wate, the aim being to reduce the number of times storm overflows occur during periods of heavy rain.
Storm Tank
Heading to Summerseat
And back to Greenmount
After absorbing all this information, we continued to walk into Summerseat and back to Greenmount having covered six storm free miles.