We left from the small car park, and now closed cafe, at Greenberfield Lock in light rain and stepped officially into modern Yorkshire Continue reading
October: Greenberfield Lock to Gargrave
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September: Barnoldswick to Barrowford
Leeds Liverpool Canal , Greenberfield Lock to Barrowford
Thursday 28th September was another lovely lovely day walking along the Leeds Liverpool Canal. After an hour or so travelling in the mini bus to Thornton in Craven on the edge of Yorkshire we alighted at Greenberfield Lock by bridge 157 at the beginning of the “summit” level of the canal at 498ft above sea level.
Canal walking group – August
Burnley to Barrowford Locks, 24th August 2017
We had a mild panic today with sixteen walkers in the car park but no minibus! A quick phone call from David calmed the nerves – the driver was on his way. Rain on the M6 dampened the spirits a bit, but it didn’t last and we arrived at our starting point at the “Weavers’ Triangle” with dry but cloudy weather.
Canal walking group – July
There were sixteen walkers on the July leg on 27th. Here’s David’s resume:
Leeds Liverpool Canal Clayton Le Moors to Burnley July 2017
Our 3.5 hour walk on the meandering canal was one of dramatic landscape and weather changes. As we left the outskirts of Clayton le Moors we were in farmland with long distance views of Pendle Hill to the north and moorlands to the south. Soon we came to a lovely wooded narrow valley as the canal turned sharply northward. Beside the usual canal barges the far canal bank was home to two bright orange enclosed lifeboats normally seen on ocean going craft and a narrowboat in a floating “dry dock”.
Canal Walking Group – July
David has researched the next leg and below is his preview:
Leeds Liverpool Canal Clayton le Moors to Burnley July 2017
This section of the canal takes us into the heart of what was once one of the most important cotton weaving towns in the world with 79,000 looms in 1900. However our walk starts in the much humbler town of Clayton le Moors which was for a while in the early 1800s the western terminus of the eastern section of the canal and these buildings remain a little to the west of our starting point at bridge 114b