The route along Rooley Moor Road is part of the Mary Towneley Loop of the Pennine Bridleway.
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Rooley Moor Road map
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1. Broadley station
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Broadley station
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2. lodge Healy Dell
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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.
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4. setts
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5. windfarm
Opened 2008. At 26 turbines, the largest onsore windfarm in England
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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.
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7. Site of Moorcock Inn
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8. Moorcock Inn gate
Strung out like pearls.
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Moorcock Inn
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9. Naden reservoirs
Strung like pearls on a line.
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10. rutts
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11. Bacup
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12. Bacup
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13. quarry signpost
Lee and Cragg quarries are both used for mountain biking
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14. Lee Quarry road
Lee Quarry in foreground, now a mountain biking centre. Whitworth quarry, active, to the rear.
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15. Rawtenstall
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16. Waterfoot
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17. Cowpe reservoirs
The old village of Partington lies under the southmost (bottom) reservoir.
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18. Cragg Quarry
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19. Waterfoot
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20. erosion Lench
said to be secondary to landslide into old workings
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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.
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22. mill wall, Cowpe
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23. Heys steps
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24. St Nicholas'
This building was consecrated in 1826, the congregation from 1511.
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25. railings, old Newchurch primary school
Now on Dark Lane