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This chimney was built around 1800 and it was believed to a remnant of a copper smelting works active from 1780–1820. Other theories to the chimney’s origins include a mine ventilation shaft, a relic of a water-pumping scheme or a beacon to guide ships bringing ore for the Leighton Beck furnace. Copper was mined on the hill close by in Elizabethan times and until much later across the marsh at Crag Foot on the flanks of Warton Crag. The chimney at Crag Foot was part of a pumping station which drained the flat land around Leighton Moss.

Continue along the turf, cross a stile and reach a signpost at an embankment, the relic of the Crag Foot scheme. Here you leave the coast and take a path left, signed Heald Brow. The path is well marked and climbs, occasionally over bare rock, to a wicket gate. Continue through trees to the pastures on top of Heald Brow. Go over a stile and continue at the side of a wall, pass a gap in another wall and cross a little triangular wood above a barn. Through a gate join a narrow walled track and turn right to reach the road. Wolfhouse Gallery, a craft centre, art gallery and café, lies a few minutes down the road to the left.