Rooley Moor Road | Springhill

Bit of a cheat this one but hey:) Down Peel Street to Bacup Road then catch the bus to Broadley, just north of Healy. Walk down Station Road to the old Broadley station then up west past the mill lodge to join Rooley Moor Road. Follow that until Lee Quarry above Stacksteads then continue west along the Pennine Bridleway around the south of Cowpe reservoir to Lench. Drop down into Waterfoot, west along Bacup Road and north along Burnley Road East to Heys Steps on the left in the wall. Follow these to Staghills Road, then west along to Nechurch Road and continue west back to Springhill. 8.5 miles.

The route along Rooley Moor Road is part of the Mary Towneley Loop of the Pennine Bridleway.

Rooley Moor Road map
1. Broadley station
Broadley station
2. lodge Healy Dell
3. setts

Rooley Moor Road is said to have been setted in the 1860s to provide work for the men unemployed due to the cotton famine during the American Civil War.
4. setts
5. windfarm

Opened 2008. At 26 turbines, the largest onsore windfarm in England
6. Site of Moorcock Inn

Once a drovers' inn to rest packhorses, it is said to have been the site of bare knucke fighting in the C19.
7. Site of Moorcock Inn
8. Moorcock Inn gate

Strung out like pearls.
Moorcock Inn
9. Naden reservoirs

Strung like pearls on a line.
10. rutts
11. Bacup
12. Bacup
13. quarry signpost

Lee and Cragg quarries are both used for mountain biking
14. Lee Quarry road

Lee Quarry in foreground, now a mountain biking centre. Whitworth quarry, active, to the rear.
15. Rawtenstall
16. Waterfoot
17. Cowpe reservoirs

The old village of Partington lies under the southmost (bottom) reservoir.
18. Cragg Quarry
19. Waterfoot
20. erosion Lench

said to be secondary to landslide into old workings
21. Cowpe mill

Known as Kearns, once a woollen mill under Richard Ashworth of Staghills, latterly a dye works. The brook down Cowpe valley to Waterfoot regularly changed colour depending on the dye of the day.
22. mill wall, Cowpe
23. Heys steps
24. St Nicholas'

This building was consecrated in 1826, the congregation from 1511.
25. railings, old Newchurch primary school

Now on Dark Lane

Springhill

The people and places associated with the Springhill area of Rossendale

Rooley Moor Road is said to have been setted in the 1860s to provide work for the men unemployed due to the cotton famine during the American Civil War.

Opened 2008. At 26 turbines, the largest onsore windfarm in England

Once a drovers' inn to rest packhorses, it is said to have been the site of bare knucke fighting in the C19.

Strung out like pearls.

Strung like pearls on a line.

Lee and Cragg quarries are both used for mountain biking

Lee Quarry in foreground, now a mountain biking centre. Whitworth quarry, active, to the rear.

The old village of Partington lies under the southmost (bottom) reservoir.

said to be secondary to landslide into old workings

Known as Kearns, once a woollen mill under Richard Ashworth of Staghills, latterly a dye works. The brook down Cowpe valley to Waterfoot regularly changed colour depending on the dye of the day.

This building was consecrated in 1826, the congregation from 1511.

Now on Dark Lane