Two Walks from Coldwell

Coldwell Inn was an 18th century inn on a pack horse route until, after being badly damaged in a fire, it was converted to an Activity Centre in 1985. A centre for gambling a hundred or so years ago it was often raided by police. It now boasts a nice tea room (closed Mondays and Tuesdays) where you can refresh yourself (from 10 until 4.30) before and after the walk.  It is on the Colne, Trawden and Nelson roads leading to Hebden Bridge - technically its on Back Lane, Burnley although it is (just) in Pendle alongside the two Coldwell Reservoirs. You can find out a lot more about it on http://www.coldwell.org.uk/

Walk 1 takes you west to Catlow Bottoms and Walverden Reservoir and is about 5 miles with a shorter variation.

Walk 2 visits the east - New House Farm, Boulsworth and the Deerstones Gambling site and is some 7 miles with a shorter variation.

To download the walks GO HERE  (use the back button to return)

To download the Map for Walk 1 GO HERE and for Walk 2 GO HERE    (use the back button to return - you may have to turn the map sideways to get the best result unless your printer does this automatically)

Pictures from walk 1 - if you think you might have difficulty on the walk they might help. To enlarge click on the image then use the back button to return

	Coldwell Activity Centre from the track down to the pump house
	The best(?) of hundreds of orchids I saw on this walk (done on 1st July)
	Fern Valley path
	The wet area which you go through after the iron gate at Walverden reservoir
	The gate to Scarrs House at the top of the field following on from the last pic
	The stile mid field and Lane Bottom
	High Sym - the path follows the wall then up the field almost direct to it. As you can see there is no trace of it on the ground
	The first glimpse of Coldwell after passing High Sym
	Shuttleworth Pasture comes into view - one of the paths through the wood starts on its immediate right
	If you go through the wood (the nicest way) you finish down the far side of this reservoir boundary wall
	And get back to Coldwell
	Near the end of the shorter variation you get this lovely path avoiding the road
	This path before it (looking back) can be equally good - but is often in the state pictured here

 Pictures from walk 2 - if you think you might have difficulty on the walk they might help. To enlarge click on the image then use the back button to return

	The portal of New House Farm with new cairns beyond
	And its inscription
	The way up Boulsworth - the lump on the horizon is the Abbot Stone not the summit
	The Abbot Stone
	And again - with Coldwell in the background
	Lad Law - the Hill of Slaughter (goodness knows why!
	Lad Law from near the trig point