Let’s Take A Walk
This is a circular walk that begins at Clitheroe Castle grounds taking you across fields and farmland to Standen Hey Community Woodland
CASTLE GROUNDS TO STANDEN HEY
Terrain: Roads, tracks and fields with gates and some stiles
Distance: 4 miles – 7km
Time: 2 hours
Start: Mitchell Street Car Park
- Start from the Eshton Terrace entrance to the castle grounds or the Mitchell Street car park (both adjacent to the railway crossing). Walk up Mitchell Street and take the first left into West View. Turn right to the end of West View then left on to Primrose Street – past the Clitheroe allotments and onto Woone Lane. Turn right down Woone Lane to an industrial area. As the road bends sharp left follow the waymarked route right (to the left of Primrose Mill).
- This brings you to a track that leads down to the railway viaduct and Pendleton (or Mearley) Brook. Go under the viaduct keeping the brook on your left and continue over several fields until you reach Henthorn Road.
- Turn left along Henthorn Road passing the household waste recycling centre on your left. Keep to the road and note the stunning riverside views to the right, also fine views of Kemple End. Continue through where it is signed ‘private road footpath only’ and you will pass Fishes and Peggy Hill Farm on your left as you approach Shuttleworth Farm.
- Go through the main double farm gates then through a second set on your left. Exit the farmyard via a gate on your right onto a farm track. Follow this track away from the farm until you reach a farm gate. Keeping the hedgerow on your left, continue through a number of fields until you reach a small corner plot of recently planted trees. Exit via a gate to a large rushy field. Take a diagonal bearing away from the fence line to the stone base of Hard Hill Cross – a point on an old Roman road.
- From the cross bear left through a kissing gate into Standen Hey Community Woodland where you are welcome to wander and picnic. Just before the railway crossing turn left and continue through the woodland along a tussocky rise. You will come to an old hedgerow/fenceline that links with and existing footpath. Turn left away from the railway and exit the woodland.
- Bear right across the fields to the treeline then follow the path down to Fishes and Peggy Hill Farm. You will pass through two farm gates to a track that runs alongside the farm. This will bring you out onto the private road where you turn right to re-trace your route back to the Castle grounds.
