🌞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 — 12 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 — 12 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
🦉
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
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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5 signed routes nearby · 41 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
Huncoat TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Bottomley Bank Lanepublic footpath · 768 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 768 mPath type: service
Church Streetpublic footpath · 165 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 165 mPath type: residential
Driving Gatepublic footpath · 104 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 104 mPath type: footway
🚴
Cycling
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37 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
Huncoat GreenwayCycling route▾
Named routeLocal 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
🚵
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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8 public paths nearby
Public paths
Hugh Rakebridleway · 628 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 628 mSurface grassPath type: bridleway
Pinner Lanebridleway · 602 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 602 mSurface compactedPath type: service
Pinner Lanebridleway · 286 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 286 mPath type: bridleway
