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Monday 14th May 2012
Damian up from London again. Suzie came with us this time. We picked Damian up from his Mum's in Wigan and drove to the Viewpoint overlooking the Anglezarke Reservoir.
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I set off first from the View Point, see map below. I climbed over the fence to see into the quarry, as the sign says it's a very steep, deep drop. In the third photo Damian's taking the fourth photo, we were impressed by how the prevailing wind had shaped the trees.
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We walked down to the bottom of the hill, I remember the first time I ever came up this hill, I must have been around twelve years old, we had a Standard Big 12 car, which had to go up the hill backwards - another story. The road then was unmetalled. We walked along the bottom to the left and then up the hill towards Rivington. We stopped for a rest several times during the climb. The road goes over the bridge
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but we went through the gate, photo 11, onto the track which leads to Lead Mines Clough
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13 - 16 the same place but different view points.
Everywhere the gorse was in bloom
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Sue decided that we wouldn't follow the stream any further up, which seemed a good time to rest and eat our lunch. The view of Rivington Pike facing us, with lots of sheep - lambing time - where Damian and I had walked on 5th March
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Behind us were some old workings from the days of the lead mines
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We were unsure as to what to do with our banana skins, there didn't appear to be any sheep about, Michael slightly ahead, said there's one up there but there were two and they were Roe Deer! They seemed quite unconcerned by our presence. The monument is to commemorate the Wellington bomber which crashed nearby in 1943. We climbed up the hill to find the bridle path which led us back to the road on which the viewpoint is. We had a little bit of excitement as we helped three horsewomen get a bleating lamb back over the fence to its mother.
As we reached the road We discussed going on a little but Sue decided she would walk down the road to the car.
Michael and Damian walked northwards until they passed Manor House where they left the road and headed downhill hoping to come out on High Bullough Reservoir. The path was unbelievably steep and very wet in places, ankle deep in bog. We found the reservoir and walked along the top edge.
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The bridge over the stream we had followed down, which took us on to the Woodland Walk above the reservoir.
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Another 'bridge' over a wet area and views of High Bullough Reservoir as we descended down to the Anglezarke Reservoir. I though I'd found a short cut back up to the Viewpoint but we came across a deep ravine and high cliff. Retracing our steps we eventually found our way back to the car where Sue has prepared our sandwiches - great.
The route we had covered.
