We are the Preston Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.
Julie C
2nd April
Walking the Great Hill - 8 miles - meet car park Brinscall baths car park - Lodge Bank , Chorley PR6 8PY
10.20 am meet up, ready to start walk at 10.30am… expected finishing time, no later than 3pm… please allow for the road works, street parking.
This is a great walk with great views, “if weather on our side!” Looking over Winter Hill, Darwen tower, Ingleborough and the Irish Sea.
Starting at The Baths car park the first mile and a half is a flat path which follows The Goit… reaching White Coppice cricket pitch we start the steady, climb up to the Great hill. This path can rugged, and uneven in parts. Walking poles useful. If wet some of these paths are muddy and slippy. It is Apx hour climb reaching a height of 1000 feet. We will have 20 minute lunch stop at this point before returning back down … we branch off to skirt Brown Hill and Heapy Moore.. then pick up the woodlands of Wheelton Plantation … at the bottom of the woodland you can return to the car reducing your walk by a mile, or continue taking country a lane and field back to the car..
Park on Lodge Lane - Please allow time for the roadworks on the way to the start point
