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DISTANCE: 5 miles (8km) TIME: 2½ hours START/END: SD196930 Roadside parking just south of Ulpha Bridge TERRAIN: Moderate MAPS: |
The walk starts south of Ulpha Bridge. A parking space can usually be found by the roadside. Walk up the road to the bridge.
Cross the bridge and turn left along the road.
Just after the second bridge on this road, you pass the former mill buildings on your right. Continue on up the steep hill.
Much use was made of the running water in these valleys. Here at one time timber from the surrounding coppice woods, was turned to provide bobbins for the Lancashire textile industry.
As the road levels out and bends to the right, go left through a gate onto the footpath signposted ‘Bleabeck Bridge’.
Join the track and bear right, through the gate and over the bridge, and on up to pass the ruin.
Frith Hall ruin. Good views from a very ‘atmospheric’ prospect.
Continue on the track into the woods. This is a pleasant route which then takes you down to the road.
Turn left and follow the road down.
Turn sharp left down the track (signposted ‘Beckfoot’), and go over a bridge towards the houses.
Go over a second bridge, through the farmyard. Ignore a footpath going off to the right and continue down a track through the trees. It then climbs gradually through the woods.
The track curves left.
Come to the road, turn right and retrace your outward route to the starting point.
