Walks June to August 2017

 

June Guided Walks…

FRIDAY 2nd JUNE

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

Time Out: 6.00pm Greenmount or lay by on road between

Belmont and Rivington Grid ref. 655158 at 6.40pm

Time Back: 8.45pm lay by:  9.20pm Greenmount

Route: Circular walk over Winter Hill

Distance: 4.5 miles

 

MONDAY 5th JUNE (two walk option)

SHORT WALK

Meeting point: outside Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS or

On Kirklees Trail at Tottington

Time Out: 8.40am Greenmount: 8.55am Tottington

Time Back: 12.30pm

Route: Greenmount, Kirklees Trail, Brandlesholme, Burrs,

Summerseat, Woodhey, Redisher, Greenmount

Distance: 6 miles

 

MONDAY 5th JUNE

LONGER WALK

TWO TOWER WALK: GRANTS TOWER & PEEL TOWER

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School

Time Out: 8.40am

Time Back: 3.00pm

Route: Greenmount, Summerseat, Nangreaves, Grants Tower,

Nuttall Park, Holcombe, Peel Tower, Hawkshaw, Greenmount

Distance: 9 miles

 

FRIDAY 9th JUNE

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

or Roddlesworth Information Centre BB3 0PA

Time Out: 6pm Greenmount: 6.50pm at Roddlesworth

Time Back: 9.10pm Roddlesworth: 9.50pm Greenmount.

Route: Roddlesworth, Abbey Village, Tockholes, Roddlesworth

Distance: 4.5 miles

 

FRIDAY 16th JUNE

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

or Clough Head Café car park BB4 4AT

Time Out: 6pm:  6.30pm at Clough Head

Time Back: 8.30pm Clough Head: 8.50pm Greenmount

Route: Clough Head, Moors and Reservoirs, Clough Head

Distance: 4 miles

 

 

WEDNESDAY 21st JUNE

First of two sections to complete Link to the Pennine Way

BULL HILL TO SHAWFORTH

Meeting place: Lumb Carr road car park Holcombe BL8 4NN

Time Out:  8.30am:

Time Back: 4.30pm

Route: Holcombe, Harcles Hill, Bull Hill, Robin Hood’s Well, Edenfield,

Cowpe Lowe, Cragg Quarry, Lee Quarry, Shawforth

Distance: 11 miles

NB money needed for bus fares back.

 

FRIDAY 23rd JUNE

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

or Rivington Hall Barn car park BL6 7SB

Time Out: 6pm Greenmount: 6.45pm at Rivington

Time Back: 8.45pm Rivington: 9.30pm Greenmount.

Route: Circular route Rivington Gardens and Rivington Pike

Distance: 4 miles

 

July Guided Walks…

MONDAY 3rd JULY

LONG WALK

Meeting point: outside Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS or

Jumbles car park BL2 4JS

Time Out: 8.40am Greenmount or 9am Jumbles

Time Back: 3pm

Route: Jumbles reservoir, Turton Tower, Cheetham Close, Turton Heights

Entwistle reservoir, Low Hill, Entwistle, Wayhoh, Jumbles

Distance: 9.5 miles

 

FRIDAY 7th JULY

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS or

Helmshore Textile Museum car park BB4 4NP

Time Out: 6.00pm Greenmount: 6.25pm Helmshore

Time Back: 8.30pm Helmshore: 8.50pm Greenmount

Route: Circular walk Helmshore, Musbury Heights

Distance: 4 miles

 

MONDAY 10th JULY

SHORT WALK

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

Time Out: 8.40am

Time Back: by 12.30pm

Route: Greenmount, Hollymount, Two Brooks Valley,

Hawkshaw, Redisher, Greenmount

Distance: 6 miles

 

 

WEDNESDAY 12th JULY

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

Time Out: 6 50pm

Time Back: 9pm

This is a Walk/Talk requested by Greenmount WI. ALL Welcome

Route: Greenmount, Golf Course, Hollymount, Fearns, Old Kays Park

Stormer Hill Fold, Kirklees Valley, Tower Farm, Greenmount.

Distance: 3.5 miles

 

 

FRIDAY 14th JULY

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

or White Coppice PR6 9DE

Time Out: 6pm Greenmount:  7pm at White Coppice Cricket Ground

Time Back: 9pm White Coppice: 9.50pm Greenmount.

Route: Circular walk of White Coppice, Moorland and Brinscall,

Distance: 4 miles

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 19th JULY

Last of two sections to complete Link to the Pennine Way

SHAWFORTH to PENNINE WAY

Meeting place: Greenmount Old School

Time Out:  8.30am:  cars to Shawforth

Time Back: 4.30pm at Shawforth

Route: Shawforth, Walsden, Pennine Way, White House on Blackstone Edge, Littleborough.

Distance: 11 miles

NB money needed for bus/train fares back to Shawforth from Littleborough.

 

FRIDAY 21st JULY

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

or Turton Tower car park BL7 0HG

Time Out: 6pm Greenmount: 6.30pm Turton Tower

Time Back: 8.30pm Turton Tower: 8.50pm Greenmount

Route: Turton Tower, Chapeltown, Edgworth, Jumbles, Turton Tower

Distance: 4 miles

 

FRIDAY 28th JULY

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS or

Borough Road, Darwen near Park entrance BB3 2TA

Time Out: 6.00pm: Start of walk 6.40pm

Time Back: 8.40pm: 9.10pm at Greenmount

Route: Circular walk through Bold Venture Park to Darwen Tower

Distance: 4 miles

 

 

AUGUST GUIDED WALKS…

 

FRIDAY 4th AUGUST

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS or Jumbles car park BL2 4JS

Time Out: 6pm Greenmount: 6.25pm Jumbles car park

Time Back: 8.30pm: 8.45pm at Greenmount

Route: Jumbles, Bradshaw, Affetside, Jumbles

Distance: 4 miles

 

MONDAY 7th AUGUST

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School or Ramsbottom railway station

Time Out: 8.40am Greenmount: 9am Ramsbottom

Time Back:  3.30pm

Route: Ramsbottom, Stubbins, Shuttleworth, Fisherman’s Retreat, Turn, Waugh’s Well,

Edenfield, Stubbins, Ramsbottom

Distance: 9.5 miles

 

FRIDAY 11th AUGUST

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS or Shuttleworth Church

Time Out: 6pm: 6.30pm at Shuttleworth

Time Back: 8.30pm Shuttleworth : 8.50pm Greenmount

Route: Fisherman’s Retreat, Bleakholt, The Plunge, Edenfield, Stubbins

Distance: 4 miles

 

MONDAY 14th AUGUST

Meeting point: outside Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

Time Out: 8.40am

Time Back: 12.30pm

Route: Greenmount, Summerseat, Grants Tower, Nuttall Park,

Greenmount

Distance: 6 miles

 

FRIDAY 18th AUGUST

Meeting Place: Greenmount Old School BL8 4DS

Time Out: 6pm

Time Back: 8.15pm

Route: Whipney Lane, Spenleach Lane, Higher Ridge, Peel Tower,

Redisher Wood Greenmount.

Distance: 4 miles