Sunday June 23rd 2013 - Witton Weavers Way (North) 20 miles

A joint event between West Lancs and East Lancs LDWA, as part of the Witton Weavers Way walking festival. 

Thirty people turned out on a very windy and wet day, for the first one and a half hours the rain came down along with the mist, you could hardly see Darwin Tower as we past it very close. It was only later that you also recognised some  of the walkers as everybody was so covered up in their waterproof gear. 

 From Darwen Tower we headed north past Earnsdale Reservoir through Tockholes village, elevenses under the M65 motorway, then later lunch stop in Witton Park where we met a lady who showed the group the Olympic torch that she had carried through Blackburn before the Olympic Games.

Onto Billinge Hill to look at the new memorial to Alfred Wainwright down to Hoghton Bottoms along the River Darwin, another stop near the canal, then south to Abbey Village turning through Roddlesworth Woods Tockholes Plantation No 2 & 3, Slipper Lowe past Hollinshead Hall (ruin) arriving back at the cars approx 5.15.

Thanks John for a great walk in hard conditions.