Health Walk - Thursday 13th December 2018    

Photos by Michael S - Please click on photos to see a larger one!

Today we had eighteen walkers for a very chilly start to the walks but we soon warmed up.

John W was the leader of the main walk with Sheila T back marker.  

Margaret W led the Elite group with David H back marker.  

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The main group setting off through the car park, walking down Berkeley Drive to go up the side of the Barn to walk down the Hall Drive

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The two lopped trees are cover in fungi

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Leaving the Drive we entered

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the Cinder Path.  Leaving the Cinder Path we walked along the Cycle Path and down into Walkers Wood.  Leaving Walkers Wood John took us down Bikers Hill, over the Stone Bridge, up the Slope to the Lake,

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along the east shore of the lake where we

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spotted Cormorants in the trees, six, possibly seven.  We went through the Kissing gate and climbed

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up the steps to Cam Lane

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Walking along Cam Lane to Hawks Clough

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where we dropped down over the Footbridge

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to follow the path

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through Green Wood round the back of ASDA back

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up to Cam Lane where we crossed to the path into the Cow Field

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Admiring the views at the top stile and working out what we could see towards and of Preston

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Walking down yet another set of steps, down the field, over the lower stile down to the Cycle Path and over the Wooden Bridge and up Cardiac Hill.

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Looking back we saw the Elite walkers struggling behind us.  They had followed us through the car park, round the side of the Barn but had turned into the Hall car park walking round the east side of the Hall to go down Snake Hill, over the Stone Bridge, round the Picnic Area to climb up the Long Steps to the Lake.

The walked across the Dam and turned up into Dog Kennel Wood, through Gravel Hole Wood and picked up the main group's route via the Pinetum back to the Visitors Centre

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At the end of the walk Sheila, John and Edward are comparing their GPS results and concluded that the main group had walked 2.4 miles

Today's walks (Red Main Group, Green Short Walk Option Group).  
Where there are green arrows on the red route it means the Elite walkers had followed the main >> or the main group had followed the Elite walkers >>.

Compiled by Michael Swarbrick

Cam Lane
Cam Lane Cottage
The Chorley Walks
Cinder Path
Cock Cabin Wood
Cuerden Hall
Cuerden Valley's Health Walk
Hawksclough Farmhouse
Jenny Greenteeth
Park
Pinetum
Ponderosa
Visitors Centre