Owd Betts, Sept 24th


Walk Leader:               Jean Bobker

No on walk:                  8

Distance:                     11.7 miles

Weather:                    Wet

On a light rainy morning (pity it wasn't the sunshiny day before) we set off from Owd Betts and descended through the ruins of an old mill next to Lumb Bridge passing Buckhurst [an old church school building for farmers' children] (now a private residence) and its farm. We continued under the M66 motorway passing a number of reservoirs around  the Walmersley area to Top o'th' Hill and diagonally over Walmersley Gold Club onto the Bridleway of Dunham Farm where good views could be seen over Cheesden Brook and its chimney.  We came across one very muddy section where David climbed left over a small wall and went up the side of a field to join us later.
After our lunch at St John the Baptist Church at Castle Hill we continued past a former school and head master's house reach the road at Birtle (formerly Bircle).   It was then past some new apartments where some walls of the original mill have been used  and left on a bridleway to reach the road above Queen's Park, Heywood where we then went left down Ashworth Road to pass through a new park home development at Gelder Wood and through the woods on the Rochdale Way following Naden Brook into Norden and back to the cars at Ashworth Moor Reservoir layby.  
 
Jean Bobker

 

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