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Mawdesley Jubilee Trail
A Walk to Commemorate
The Golden Jubilee of
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
MAWDESLEY JUBILEE TRAIL
From the village hall car park, go away from the village to pass through the gate of Mawdesley Millennium Green. Follow the path, as it swings left in a large arc down to another entrance. Turn right across the bridge and follow the path until Smithy lane is reached. CARE!
Turn right and cross the road onto a footpath to pass the imposing Lane End House on your left. Carry on along the road and turn left into Sandy Lane. Opposite the first side road turn left along a cart track to a stile. Go left along an enclosed path and continue uphill with the hedge on the left towards a church spire ahead. On approaching the Equestrian centre go over a double stile and now with a fence on your right, enter an enclosed path to the main road. CARE!
Cross the road, turn right and then immediately left adjacent to St. Peter’s Church grounds.
Proceed along an enclosed path with Harrock Hill directly ahead. From the stile ease right across to a double stile by a wooden fence. Follow the path round to the right and then along the fence to a gate/stile at the end of the field to join a country lane. CARE!
Turn left and left again at the road junction to proceed to Cedar Farm. When level with the first main building turn right over a stile. Cross the car park to go by the right of the exhibition centre. Follow the track around the buildings and at the T-junction beyond the farm turn left. The rough track crosses a stream and at this point the path to Horrock Hill goes off to the right with the stream on it’s right. The Mawdesley Jubilee Trail proceeds to back lane where you turn right and right again just as you round the left hand bend. Go to the right of the tree/hedge ahead and at it’s end bear left across to the large gap in the tree line across the field. You emerge onto Moody Lane. CARE!
Cross over and go forward along Back Lane East to the first farm driveway (Monks Farm) on the left. The walk from Harrock Hill rejoins the Mawdesley Jubilee Trail here. Go down the driveway and swing left across the farmyard to the gate. Now follow the path around the left edge of the field and down to a footbridge. Now the path skirts right, around a pond and then forward left to the field corner. Cross the stile and follow the enclosed path to go through a yard onto Bradshaw lane. CARE!
Cross diagonally left to another enclosed path that soon opens out and takes you forward across the fields to Tarn beck estate. CARE!
Now turn right and then right again over the footbridge. Follow the hedge on the right above the old quarries and then down to the access road and onto Hall lane at the War Memorial. CARE!
Turn right up Dam brow to the Black Bull.
Turn left and on through the car park, forward through the farmyard and onward along a wide farm track. Follow the track as it bends right onto the concessionary path along the hedge and wood to the right. Cross over the stile at the bottom of the wood and then head out across the field, by the right of a solitary post, to the distant footbridge. Now go with the hedge on your right, eventually going right, around the edge of the property, to emerge onto Wood Nook Lane. CARE!
Turn left to follow the lane as it descends down to the Moss. Ignore the access road to Cliffs Farm, but swing right to pass through Wood Lane Farm and then left to pass Boundary Farm on the left. At the rear of Cliffs farm (left), turn right along a field track (concessionary path) between conservation areas. At the public footpath turn right, then after about 100m, left to follow a thin line of trees on the left. At the last tree turn right across the field to join a farm track a few metres east of a solitary young tree. Turn left and follow the boundary ditch to the crossing of two paths close to substantial upright posts. Here you can go forward to the Rufford boundary. The Mawdesley Jubilee Trail itself turns left, going south along the headland between the fields, to a farm track, which in turn joins the rough surface of Gales Lane. As you proceed down the lane the Rufford path rejoins the Mawdesley Jubilee Trail just before the open bridge is reached (don’t cross). Continue along Gales Lane until you reach a conventional stone bridge. Once again don’t cross the bridge but turn left onto a field edge path to follow the brook upstream to the second young plantation. Go through the gate, slightly left and advance up the field track to join a farm access road. Go forward, passing the stables on the left, down to the main road. CARE!
Turn right and then right again into Hurst Green. Another right by the side of the school takes you into the village hall car park.