Let’s Take A Walk…
Mark Sutcliffe follows a linear route from Bashall Eaves back into Clitheroe via Waddington
Distance: 8.4km
Ascent: 75m
Grade: Easy
Terrain: Footpaths across farmland, gravel tracks and country lanes
Start: Bashall Eaves Crossroads. SD 696 433 What3Words: //suppers.removed.brownish
Parking: Railway Avenue or Chester Avenue pay and display (for Clitheroe Interchange)
Toilets: Railway Avenue car park
Refreshments: A choice of three excellent pubs in Waddington.
The new Route 11 bus service, connecting Clitheroe and Horton-in-Ribblesdale, opens up a whole range of car-free walks in the Ribble Valley, Forest of Bowland and Yorkshire Dales.
This is an enjoyable easy linear walk between Bashall Eaves and Waddington, which crosses the listed Saddle Bridge.
1. Catch the Route 11 bus from Stand 3 outside Clitheroe Station. Alight at Bashall Eaves. From the bus stop turn right at the junction and follow the lane past the farms and where the lane heads left, take the footpath straight across the field, then right onto a lane. Follow the lane as it turns into a track, then a footpath to Saddle Bridge.
2. Cross the bridge, follow the footpath heading left then forking to the right of the barns around the copse to a stile. Cross the stile, go right along a gravel track for 300m to a cattle grid then take the path down to the right. Ford the stream, head through the iron gate, follow the left hand field boundary to cross two footbridges and reach a stile onto a driveway.
3. Head right over the stile, left between the houses and right at the gate and through another gate into a narrow path leading into open fields. Here, turn immediate left and follow the faint path along the field boundary to Lower New House Farm.
4. Go through the yard to the track at the end, follow right then left over the bridge then continue through three gates and past the barn. Stay on the track over the cattle grid, through the last gate into Waddington.
5. Continue straight on at the Lower Buck Inn, past St Helen’s Church, then right opposite the Waddington Arms to walk through the village. Opposite the club, head right along Katy Lane, then left to join Edisford Road. Continue on this road for a mile, past Shireburn Caravan Park, left over the footbridge and right into Lowmoor.
6. Follow the path right, then across the green, over the mini-roundabout heading left into Chapel Close. Follow the road through the housing estate then onto the track past the allotments and stables.
7. At the weir, head right away from the river to join the footpath heading through a gate and into the next field. Follow the field boundary, at the far end of the field follow the hedge along the boundary, left through a kissing gate and immediately left through the next kissing gate onto a gravel track.
8. Follow this track left around the edge of the housing development then right to Kirkmoor Road. Continue towards the castle, at the end of the road, left past the sheltered accommodation and into the footpath past the back of the railway station, right under the bridge and left returning to the interchange.
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