Photos by Michael S - Please click on photos to see a larger one
All Health Walks have been cancelled but Jimmy and Michael turned up to walk, this time in the car as the combined cycling and walking left Michael useless for the rest of the day
John B and Beth were also in the Car Park and they set off down Snake Hill
We set off down Snake Hill and soon caught them up giving them a wide berth with their help.
Across the Picnic Area and up the Long Steps to the Lake
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Marsh Marigolds, one of my two favourite flowers of spring which evoke memories of childhood on my Grandad's Farm.
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Broom and is it Forget-Me-Nots of Bluebells?
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My favourite flower, the Mayflower - controversial name, David B is adamant it is the Cuckoo Flower, incidentally David heard a Cuckoo in the Park last week - reason for the name, it blooms when you can hear the Cuckoo
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More Marsh Marigolds off Cam Lane Lane
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Hawksclough Farmhouse, work now well under way restoring the buildings
Round the back of ASDA through Green Wood and up on to Cam Lane again, this time crossing
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and into the Cow Field - the cows back so when the Health Walks start up again this path will be out of bounds
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Looking up to the Park's Barn
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and down to the south west.
Up into Gravel Hole Wood, through into Dog Kennel Wood, down the Slope, over the Stone Bridge, up Bikers Hill into Cock Cabin Wood where there seems to have been wholesale destruction of trees.
Back down Bikers Hill, over the Stone Bridge again and
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along the Cycle Path
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I saw a kingfisher once here on a organized walk.
Over the Wooden Bridge, up Cardiac Hill and across the Pinetum back to the Car Park
Beth on Facebook: "We saw Michael & Jim setting off, in fact they overtook us. We wandered down the hill & up the ramp to the reservoir where we watched the wildfowl & the ducks being fed, then went up the steps to the pasture back to the gate round the bottom edge of the reservoir down the steps to the riverside, we had intended to go up through the woods, but my knees hurt so just back up the hill to the car. It was good but short."
Today's walk from Map My Walk
Compiled by Michael Swarbrick with grateful thanks to Jimmy for bumping into me, not literally he kept 2 metres away. The walk was 3.49 miles according to MmW
café
Cam Lane
Cam Lane Cottage
The Chorley Walks.
Cinder Path
Cock Cabin Wood
Cuerden Hall
Cuerden Valley's Health Walk
Lower Kem Mill
Hawksclough Farmhouse
Tree Sculpture
Park
Pinetum
Ponderosa
Visitors Centre
