My walking had really fallen off as of late. Countryside (real, off-road stuff) has been a no-go all year for reasons I really can’t justify, the unfulfilling slip and slide in January at Anglezarke really …
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Category: Day-long walks
Anglezarke Angst on Sunday
My first return of the year to the West Pennines saw me start off from Rivington Bar Car Park at 10:28 (well actually half way down one of the drives as it was chocka!), and …
Continue readingTicking off the West Pennines Peaks: White Brow & Adam Hill
I really should make a category for this! The walk of Sunday, 23rd April, 2023 According to Wikipedia, we can deduce that Winter hill has 12 summits classed as “nearby”. My take on this has …
Continue readingTreading through Turton
The walk of Sunday February 27th Even though my last walk had covered a lot of this route I felt the need to revisit the lovely villages of Affetside, Hawkshaw and Turton Bottoms once more. …
Continue readingWalking the 30:The Three Reservoirs walk – COMPLETED
Another post in the series: “To walk 30 walks of the West Pennines.” Since the 2nd of January ‘swim’ around the reservoirs I have made a successful return, accompanied by a friend and thoroughly enjoyed …
Continue readingThe West Pennines Classic
The classic walk of Saturday 18th of September, 2021 Great Hill and Winter Hill via ‘The Edges’ from Rivington. The time had come for another grand excursion of Anglezarke Moor, I have another two massive …
Continue readingWe went on’t Sunday mornin’
Celebration of the mass land trespass of 1896 Part II Update: Mission accomplished and I managed to lead the pack all of the way up both Halliwell Road – easy and Smithills Dean Road – …
Continue readingGetting back into walking
The grand walk around Smithills Moor on 24th April, 2021 I’d promised myself a ‘getting back into the swing of things’ type of walk for a week or two and with the onset of good …
Continue readingThe 2020 Anglezarke Amble (shorter route)
Warning, this post contains emphatic and robust language. If you’re easily offended I’d **** off now if I were you! Oh how I hate to refer to this as the shorter route, as it is, …
Continue readingReturn to Ribblehead
I should say from the off that this is one of my favourite walking places… Well I tried doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks again…and bailed at Ribblehead, again, just like in 2010. When, oh when …
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