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NORTHWEST AND WESTERN MOORS

WALK 6

Clougha Pike

Start/Finish Birk Bank car park, Quernmore (SD526604) Distance 8km (5 miles) Total Ascent 350m (1150ft) Terrain Good paths and tracks, but some untracked heather moorland, and a rocky descent to a large boggy area (no dogs) Maps Explorer OL41 (Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale)

This energetic walk makes a splendid ascent to one of the finest viewpoints in Lancashire, concluding through a delightful wooded ravine and across a stretch of marshy ground bright in spring with bog-loving plants. There is a small amount of trackless wandering, which presents no difficulty in clear weather conditions.

Leave the rear of the Birk Bank car park by walking to a gate giving onto a broad track at the edge of Access Land. Follow the track through bracken, and when it forks, branch left.

When the track later curls to the right, leave it by branching left onto a narrower path that continues easily to pass a stone pillar, and then reach Ottergear Bridge spanning a gully near a disused quarry. Over the bridge, bear left on a broad green track that heads round to a T-junction. Here, turn right, climbing gently for a while and then levelling as the track passes through a gully. Cross a ladder-stile, and climb steeply out of the gully onto an ascending shooters’ track rising onto the moorland.