This is known as the ‘youth alpha walk’ after its use by a local chuch group to tire out teenagers on the youth alpha weekend.
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youth alpha map
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1. well Edge Lane
Possibly originally part of Patrick's water storage system on Saunder Height, it now supplies Myrtle "Mucky' Earth and other properties.
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2. bike Bolton's woods
Named after Henry Hargreaves Bolton, nephew and heir of George Hargreaves of Ashworth Hargreaves Collieries.
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3. Heightside
Built for William Bolton, father of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, latterly headquarters of the European Christian Mission and now a residential facility specialising in mental health care.
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4. seat Bolton's woods
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5. steps Bolton's woods
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6. crusty man
Graffiti in Bolton's woods. Crusty Man was aka Stephen Hensby who was shot dead in a standoff with police over allegations of harassment in 2006. See link left.
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7. St Peter's RC primary school
On this site since c 1975. Previously in the old Newchurch Grammar School on the top of Bridleway
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8. slab wall
Common form of walling in Rossendale where stone was pentiful.
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9. Seat Naze
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10. BRGS from Seat Naze path
The front building dates from 1913 with various extensions since.
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11. St Nicholas' from Seat Naze path
The datestone of 1561 inside the porch on the S side is said to be the oldest genuine datestone in Rossendale
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12. factories Burnley Road East
At the height of industrial Rossendale the entire Valley floor was lined with factories along the Irwell and Whitewell valleys. Many of those which remain have been modified to reduce size.
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13. Edgeside
Mary Ann Ashworth owned virtually all the land on this photograph. She donated the sites of St Anne's school, church and parsonage on the left and gave instructions in her will for land in Wales on the right.
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14. quarry left of path, Seat Naze
Rossendale has numerous such small quarries- were they ever viable?
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15. quarry right of path
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16. Jack Lodge
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17. top Seat Naze
There is no right of way to the summit, sadly, although generations of children played in the 'fairy ring' of stones there. In the 1970s the local churches climbed the hill on Good Friday and erected a cross which remained there until Ascension Day. It is alleged that the landowner removed permission when the new vicar of St Nicholas' got his milk from elsewhere... Today the cross is erected in Newchurch village.
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Digby 1967
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18. Cross, Windy Willows
Erected by the residents 2010
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19. well in field
Source of the Deadwen clough?