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Further on, the track changes direction to move round a small inlet below High Bullough Reservoir. As the road climbs on the other side, leave it, as it swings to the right, by branching left on the apex, to follow a delightful woodland path around the edges of Brook House Plantation.

High Bullough Reservoir was the first reservoir to be constructed in the area, in 1850, to supply drinking water to Chorley. The link with the main reservoir system is no longer used, and the reservoir is given over to visiting wildfowl, notably goldeneye and grebe.

Brook House Plantation was planted in the 1870s, and contains many beech and oak trees that date from that time. The beech provides food for great tits, chaffinches and squirrels, but the tree canopy is quite dense, and prevents light penetrating to the woodland floor, thus minimising the development of undergrowth and providing poor conditions for wild flowers.

The on-going route is never in doubt, and finally descends to a junction of pathways, where the Woodland Trail turns right. Here, leave the trail and go left on a path that heads to a kissing-gate, and then across meadows at the northern end of Anglezarke Reservoir. At one point the way climbs along a narrow path above steep embankments, before finally running out to meet a road at a gate/stile.