Beating The Bounds - REEDLEY HALLOWS

The main road through Reedley divides it neatly into the urban housing on the east and the rural west. Our walk only takes in this rural part and thus is the second shortest walk of Pendle's parishes. Despite it being boggy in many places (as are all the fields leading down to the Calder from the Padiham by-pass) it is a pleasant walk which can easily be combined with either Old Laund Booth or Higham for a longer day out.

It contains, I believe, our steepest path in what, for me, is Pendle's hidden gem - Spurn Clough. In days of yore there was a delightful path up the Clough but the extension of the sewage works blocked it (and lack of use rapidly returned it to nature) and, after these were completed, it was felt that the necessary work to re-open it could not be carried out as (most deservedly) the clough had become a Biological Heritage Site. Please enjoy it - the flora (particularly in Spring) and fauna can be wonderful. My photos cannot do it justice.

Start:                The main road in Reedley near Reedley Drive and the Magistrates Court

Length:             7k

Height Gain:      under 100m

Time:                2 hours

Grade:              Easy

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GO HERE for the map

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	Reedley's fields with Pendle and the village of Fence behind from the canal
	The lowest of the three bridges over Spurn Clough
	The middle one
	And the upper
	New Laund Farm with Burnley's wintry hills behind
	The last leg - the canal towpath and the bridge on Robinson Lane