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Start & Parking : Waddington Arms, Waddington, near Clitheroe (BB7 3HP). Grid ref. SD 728 438
(S/E) From the Waddington Arms, head over the bridge, past the church, and right at the pub.
(1) Then, after 50 yards, right again up driveway, through gate then left over footbridge and over stile. Continue on the path under the trees and over another stile then half left across field. Continue straight over the field to a stile, then right through a gate to a stile under trees on the far side of the field. Go over a stile, head right for 75m.
(2) Then walk left over the bridge and follow the path along the field boundary to a footbridge in a copse at the far side of a second field. Continue straight across the field in front of Coulthurst Hall to a stile at the end of the wall. Go over the stile, go left down the track.
(3) Then, go right over the first stile and right across the field parallel to boundary to reach the stile on the edge of the woods. Go over the stile, find your way through dense woodland, over the footbridge and left onto Cross Lane - known by the locals as Rabbit Lane. Continue gently downhill (South-West) on the lane for 150m.
(4) Take the Bridleway on the right. Continue climbing for 500m, jinking right then left and continuing along edge of wood and through kissing gate. Continue slightly left along the perimeter of the woodland then along wall and through two gates to the next wall, heading right along a wall and through a gateway towards a farm building.
(5) At the building, go over stile and follow path round to the right of the farm and continue straight across fields for 250m, jinking right through gate and diagonally across the field to a stile in the corner. Follow field boundary for 100m then head half right, following telegraph poles and over stiles to a road (B6478).
(6) Cross with caution into Mill Lane and continue straight on for 200m, taking footpath right down track signposted ‘Tagglesmire Hall’ heading downhill between the houses and into wooded ghyll.
(7) Cross the footbridge and climb steeply left then right to follow the path along the lip of the ghyll. Continue straight down through the fields and right of the irrigation reservoir and over the stile.
(8) Walk through the farmyard then right down a faint path into the ghyll and left over a steep stone stile into a field. Continue descending through the fields beside the ghyll for half a mile and as the church spire appears ahead, make for the line of sycamores and follow the track then path past the almshouses back into the village. At the road, turn right then left down the lane back to the Waddington Arms. (S/E)
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