Tasty Lancashire Cheese Trail
Grade
Easy to ModerateType
WalkDescription
Start Point: The Green Man, Inglewhite SD 5468 3991 (parking available in roadside lay-bys). Distance/Time: 6 miles/3hrs. Terrain: Lanes, tracks, fields. When walking this route, OL41 ("Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale") is strongly recommended, along with OL286 ("Blackpool and Preston").
Walk Waypoints
- 1 Walk up to the village green, and turn right out of the village along Inglewhite Road.
- 2 Take the first footpath on your left, and cross the field to a gateway. In the distance, you'll see a group of red brick buildings (Higher Barker). Head for these until you reach a track; follow this track to Higher Barker.
- 3 Go over the stile on your right, and out through the yard. As you leave the yard, go left through a set of double metal gates, and then right through another gate. Follow the stream to the field corner.
- 4 Go over a stile, and follow the field path to Church Lane. Go right down Church Lane to the T-junction, and turn left.
- 5 You are now at Greenfields Diary. Take the footpath on your right opposite the dairy, and follow the stream until you reach 2 field gates.
- 6 Go through the wooden gate ahead, and pass Bullsnape Hall, keeping it on your right. Continue until you reach a stile that takes you down to the woodland near a cottage.
- 7 Once over this stile, pass through the garden/woodland, and come out along the drive to the road. Turn right, and walk to the Horns Inn crossroads.
- 8 At the crossroads, go straight across. Take the first right towards the cottage. If you're not stopping, before you reach it, take the first footpath on your right. Walk diagonally across two fields until you reach Whinnyclough Brook. Take the path to the right into Whinnyclough Farmyard.
- 9 Go straight through the yard and out onto the golf course. Passing the small wooden hut on your right, keep on the track, through the golf course and out just to the right of Higher Beesley buildings.
- 10 Continue straight on towards Lower Beesley. You are now at Mrs Kirkhams Dairy. After passing the dairy, turn left onto the road, and carry on until you reach the first footpath on your right, taking you to Turner House Farm.
- 11 Head left along the road until you reach the first bridleway on your right. Take this track past Inglewhite Lodge, coming out onto Inglewhite Road.
- 12 Turn left, and take the first footpath on your left. Follow this over several fields until you exit onto Silk Mill Lane. Turn right to walk back into Inglewhite village and the Green Man.