White Coppice to Great Hill
   
Date 7/4/2003
Starting Point White Coppice (SD619191)
Distance 4 miles

. A lovely evening and a great walk from White Coppice to Great Hill

 


The new information board on the bridge over The Goit

 

Gateway to the moors

 

The track to the dam

 

The steep drop in to Dean Black Brook (or The Gorge as many people call it)

 

A little higher up alongside Dean Black Brook

 

Up on the moor, an old tree by the brook (this has now fallen (Ed 2012))

 

Great Hill through a gap in the old stone wall coming up from The Gorge

 

Another distant view of Great Hill

 

Great Hill from Coppice Style

 

The ruins of Grime's Farm

 

Nearing Drinkwater's Farm, these mine trials are clearly visible

 

On the last section of the climb this track veers off to the ruins of Great Hill Farm

 

The view across to Winter Hill

 

great Hill summit

 

Darwen Tower from Great Hill

 

A distant Irish Sea from the top

 

Sunset at Coppice Stile on the way back to Coppice