This route returned over Balladen. Return as came until the top of the tramway then cut left to a stile over the wall. Follow the path north then north east (beware the active quarrying) until it rejoins the tramway behind Hill End Farm
Alternative routes back are over Lench (following the Pennine Bridleway) to Waterfoot or through Edenfield (see Chocolate Cafe walk)
Some subsequent pictures taken Sept 2013 as I tried to clarify the layout of the scrubbing mill...
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waughs well
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1. old trackway
vertically down just to right of centre.
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2. Hurdles quarry
Why is it called Hailstorm Hill again?
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3. rabbit holes
bunny central
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4. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
Information board for these remains
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5. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
view from board. Boiler house and polishing shed in front, dwellings in distance, track on right.
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6. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
chimney base
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7. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
dwellings
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8. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
engine shed on left with the track to the shed along the centre and the boiler house on the right
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9. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
engine shed
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10. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
saw mill
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11. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
crane base towards polishing mill and boiler house
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12. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
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13. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
boiler house from engine shed
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14. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
s from polishing mill
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15. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
stone waste
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16. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
trackway looking north
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17. Cloughfold Scrubbing Mill
trackway looking south
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cloughfold scrubbing mill 1967
picture Ronald Digby, "A Rossendale Anthology" Borough of Rawtenstall Libraries, Arts and Parks Committee 1967.
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18. old and new quarries
Horncliffe quarry, encroaching close to the footpath.
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19. old and new quarries
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20. crusty man
Crusty Man was aka Stephen Hensby who was shot dead in a standoff with police over allegations of harassment in 2006. See link left and youth alpha walk
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21. ASDA
Just in case you need to know
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22. to Grane
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23. to Waugh's Well
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24. Sand Beds Farm
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25. lichen
probably two forms of Cladonia spp
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26. wheatear
juvenile
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27. Fo' Edge Farm
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28. Fo' Edge map
from the information board on the site of Fo' Edge Farm
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29. Fo' Edge Farm
painting on the information board on the site of Fo' Edge Farm
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fo edge farm 1967
picture Ronald Digby, "A Rossendale Anthology" Borough of Rawtenstall Libraries, Arts and Parks Committee 1967.
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30. Edwin Waugh
1817-1890, poet
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Edwin Waugh
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31. Waugh's Well
Built in 1866 as a memorial to Edwin Waugh who spent much time at nearby Fo' Edge Farm. Rebuilt 1966 with further dedication to Ward Ogden, naturalist.
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waughs well 1967
picture Ronald Digby, "A Rossendale Anthology" Borough of Rawtenstall Libraries, Arts and Parks Committee 1967.
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32. to Rawtenstall
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33. small tortoiseshell
Over 40 of these on a patch of thistles and nettles above Balladen, together with painted laides, meadow brown, small white, red admirals...