Distance - 5.43 miles
Ascent - 387 metres
Today was a short (ish) walk on the other side of the
Whitworth Valley from yesterdays.
Walking up the Rake gets the blood going and also gets you on the tops
pretty quickly. In the sun it was quite
warm, but as soon as you got on the open ground the strong cold wind kicked
in. On the way up the wind was behind
me, battering my ears. So hood up and
onwards!
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| Whitworth Valley |
Joining the Pennine Bridleway the path flattens out
round the bottom of Brown Wardle, so a quite an easy coast along. The path drops into Higher Slack Brook, along an old track
way which looks so completely out of place.
The trackway would of crossed the brook to join up with
Ramsden Road. This old road joined a
number of farmsteads before they were cleared when Watergrove Reservoir was
built and the lower valley flooded.
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