🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
🅿️Parking 313m away — 4 car parks within reach
🌤️ Visiting this summer
🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
🅿️Parking 313m away — 4 car parks within reach
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking
Best for
5 activities
🐶
Dog walks
Strong match
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
🦅
Bird watching
Good match
Moorland — golden plover, curlew and short-eared owl
Free
🦉
Wildlife
Good match
Upland flushes, fens and swamps priority habitat
Free
🌲
Forest walks
Good match
Public woodland
Free
🥾
Hiking
Good match
Named hiking route nearby: Rossendale Way
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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7 signed routes nearby · 15 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Mary Towneley LoopWalking route▾
Forms part of Pennine Bridleway National Trail
Named routeRegional walking route
Irwell Sculpture TrailWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Rochdale WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef RochRegional walking route
Rossendale WayWalking route▾
A high-level route around Bacup, Rawtenstall, Haslingden and Whitworth in the Rossendale Valley, crossing the open moors and farmland of the South Pennines which roughly follows the Rossendale Borough boundary.
Named routeRegional walking route
GM Ringway Stage 12Walking route21.1 km▾
GM Ringway Stage 12 - Norden to Bury
Named routeLength 21.1 kmRegional walking route
Danes Lanepublic footpath · 34 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 34 mPath type: footway
Danes Lanepublic footpath · 350 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 350 mPath type: footway
Danes Lanepublic footpath · 165 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 165 mPath type: footway
🚴
Cycling
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104 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 66Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 66National Cycle Network
Vos Stansfield Road - Cowpe RoadCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Cycle routeCycling route▾
Named routeRef 661Local cycle route
Route 92Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 92Regional cycle route
Britannia GreenwayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Whitworth GreenwayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
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Mountain biking
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2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Lee Quarry Red RouteMountain bike route▾
Named route
Lee Quarry Black RouteMountain bike route▾
Named route
🐴
Horse riding
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19 public paths nearby
Public paths
Rochdale to Bacup Linebridleway · 45 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 45 mSurface asphaltPath type: cycleway
High Barn Lanebridleway · 188 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 188 mPath type: bridleway
Hall Streetbridleway · 97 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 97 mPath type: residential
New Roadbridleway · 566 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 566 mPath type: track
Prickshaw Lanebridleway · 42 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 42 mPath type: unclassified
