Walking on the West Pennine Moors. Terry Marsh

Walking on the West Pennine Moors

About the Author

Terry Marsh is an award-winning writer and photographer specialising in the outdoors and travel, and has authored or co-authored more than 60 travel or walking guidebooks. He lives in Chorley, Lancashire, on the western edge of the West Pennine Moors, which he has explored and written about extensively. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and from 1993 until 2009 was Secretary of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild. He holds a Master of Arts degree with Distinction in Lake District Studies.

Other Cicerone guides by the author

A Northern Coast to Coast Walk

Geocaching in the UK

Great Mountain Days in Snowdonia

Great Mountain Days in the Pennines

The Dales Way

The Isle of Man

The Isle of Mull

The Isle of Skye

The West Highland Way

Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle

WALKING ON THE WEST PENNINE MOORS

Terry Marsh

2 POLICE SQUARE, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA LA7 7PY

www.cicerone.co.uk

First edition 2009, reprinted (with updates) 2013

ISBN: 978 1 85284 580 3

Printed by Drukarnia Legra, Krakόw

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey® with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. © Crown copyright 2013. All rights reserved. Licence number PU100012932

This book is dedicated to the memory of my dad,

John Marsh (1921–2009),

who died peacefully during the course of the book’s preparation.

Advice to Readers

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Front cover: Dovecote, Rivington (Walks 2 and 3)

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Geography and Natural History

Human Influence

Introducing the Valleys

Walking Safely

Using this Guide

RIVINGTON AND ANGLEZARKE

Walk 1 Around Anglezarke Reservoir

Walk 2 Rivington Moor and Winter Hill

Walk 3 Wilderswood and the edge of Rivington Moor