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