🌞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 on site — 2 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 on site — 2 car parks within reach
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking
Best for
6 activities
🐶
Dog walks
Strong match
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
🦉
Wildlife
Strong match
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅
Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🌿
Foraging
Good match
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🌲
Forest walks
Good match
Public woodland
Free
🚲
Cycling
Good match
Named cycling route nearby: Lancashire Cycleway (Southern Loop)
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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4 signed routes nearby · 55 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
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
Burnley WayWalking route▾
Named routeRef BuWRegional walking route
School Streetpublic footpath · 56 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 56 mPath type: residential
Saunder Height Lanepublic footpath · 109 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 109 mPath type: unclassified
Pinch Clough Roadpublic footpath · 267 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 267 mPath type: unclassified
🚴
Cycling
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26 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6National Cycle Network
Lancashire Cycleway (Southern Loop)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 91Regional cycle route
Vos Stansfield Road - Cowpe RoadCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Blackburn Rd/Manchester Rd ACLCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Cycle routeCycling route▾
Named routeRef 661Local cycle route
Route 92Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 92Regional cycle route
🚵
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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6 public paths nearby
Public paths
Lumb Lanebridleway · 271 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 271 mPath type: service
Lumb Lanebridleway · 763 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 763 mSurface unpavedPath type: bridleway
Coal Pit Lanebridleway · 1 km▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 1 kmPath type: unclassified
Pinch Clough Roadbridleway · 159 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 159 mPath type: bridleway
Scout Roadbridleway · 177 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 177 mPath type: residential
