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The summit of Clougha Pike is a fine viewpoint

The path soon meets a track beside a gate. Turn right, and when it forks a short way further on bear left over a slight rise to a track junction, and there go left again to descend to the car park.

WALK 7

Ward’s Stone from Tarnbrook

Start/Finish Lee Bridge; limited parking (SD567552) Distance 17km (10½ miles) Total Ascent 475m (1558ft) Terrain Good upland tracks and clear paths; a little minor road walking Maps Explorer OL41 (Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale)

Even before the introduction of Access Land laws, this fine traverse of Ward’s Stone, the highest of the Bowland summits, was available to walkers thanks to the imaginative use of a concessionary path across the high ground. In a way it is a mirror image of ssss1 from the north, and likewise shows these lovely moorland fells to good advantage.

You start from Lee Bridge, from where a surfaced lane follows the Tarnbrook Wyre to the hamlet of Tarnbrook at the confluence of Tarnsyke Clough, Thrush Clough and Gables Clough. Tarnsyke, a tiny, sequestered hamlet, was once the centre of a small industry manufacturing gloves and felt hats.