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Keep dogs on leads Fasten all gates Protect plants, wildlife and livestock Industrial Estate Take your litter home Guard against fire Plan ahead, follow signs and keep to paths Be safe – go with a friend
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If you have any problems or see moter bikes, Rostored Landfill vandalism etc. please phone the Park Rangers on : 01282 831053.
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5. After about 200 metres turn right over the small footbridge and head up the bridleway slope for about 400 metres until you join Rowley Lane. Upstream from the footbridge is the site of an ancient corn mill , the wheel of which was powered by a goit stream off the Swinden Water.
BRUN VALLEY FOREST PARK To Briercliffe & Queens Street Mill
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Keith Wilson, Woodlands Officer Forest of Burnley, Green Spaces & Amenities, Burnley Council Lodge Pond Email: kwilson@burnley.gov.uk Phone: 01282 425011 ext 3178
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6. Carefully cross Rowley Lane and follow the new path opposite around Rowley Lake. 7. Over the footbridge follow the path before heading up the zigzag slope. Here you have a choice of 3 routes:
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Based upon the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Burnley Council. Licence No. LA-077364 2012. Graphics and Communications © Burnley Council 2012. 01282 425011 Job 6943
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CARVED MARKERS
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Between the interpretation panels at Bank Hall, Rowley Lake and the Thornton Arms, animal Heasandford carved wooden marker posts will help you follow Bank Hallthe trail. Carved by Richard Colbran and Lancashire & Cheshire Woodcarvers, Chris Barber at Offshoots and David Garnett, these Allotments include a brown trout, dipper, kingfisher, great spotted woodpecker, ringlet butterfly and gold finch. Between the carvings , larch posts with light blue bands should help you to follow the trail.
This 7 kilometre (4 mile) trail forms a pleasant walk from Bank Hall car park along the Burnley Way/Brun Valley Greenway to Rowley Lake and the Thornton Arms pub by Brownside Road. It links to the Towneley Greenways via Brunshaw Avenue or returns to Bank Hall via Bell Pit and Millennium Woods and Queen’s Park Arboretum. THE WILDLIFE
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The trail passes through varied habitats rich in wildlife. The River Brun now supports brown trout, heron, kingfishers and dippers. The adjacent woodland and that around Rowley Lake is good for great spotted woodpeckers, sparrow hawk, roe deer, bats, badgers, foxes To Central Station and a range of song birds. Areas of grassland support common spotted orchid, knapweed THOMPSON PARK and ringlet butterflies in summer. Rowley Lake and the Michelin Lodge pond are also good for waterbirds like moorhens, gooseanders and mallards; dragonflies and cruising carp. Even close to built up areas colourful gold finches can be seen feeding on thistle and other seeds. Kestrels and sky larks often hover over the restored Rowley Landfill site looking for food.
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TREES FOR BURNLEY This volunteer group has been working for Lodge Pond nearly 20 years to plant and look after trees and woodlands throughout the borough. They have helped Forest of Burnley plant more than 1 million trees to create 500 hectares of new woodland since 1997. Rostored Landfill They run monthly Sunday volunteer groups at which all are welcome (Please phone June Evans on 01282- 439034 or Peter Thorne on 01282- 421757 for details). They have obtained funding from the Big Lottery
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3. When the path meets Netherwood Road carefully turn left onto it and head past the allotments entrance to Heasandford Cottages about 100 metres on your right. Originally called Pheasantford, the manor house is one of the oldest buildings in Burnley. 4. Having turned right at Heasandford follow the path about 50 metres before turning right again over the step over style on to the bridleway through the Netherwoods. Follow this for about 400 metres to the Michelin Lodge pond. Another 200 metres on take the path over the road bridge bearing right past the Burnley Way marker.
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Brun Valley Greenway, which goes under Queen Victoria Road and passes between Heasandford Allotments and the River Brun for about 400 metres.
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This ambitious partnership between Burnley Council, Lancashire County Council, Groundwork Pennine Lancashire, the Forestry Commission and local groups looks to link Burnley Central Station and Bank Hall to Rowley Lake with extra paths and greenways particularly around the restored Rowley Landfill. Emphasis will be upon enhancing quiet outdoor
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THE BRUN VALLEY FOREST PARK
1. Parking is available off Queen Victoria Road at Bank Hall. Alternatively you can arrive by bus or walk the 2 kilometres from Burnley Central Station along the Brun Valley Greenway which follows the route of an old coal ginny railway.
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The River Ribble Trust – Urban Rivers Enhancement Scheme – is another partner Industrial Estate that has been working to create fish passes along the Rivers Calder and Brun. It will engage also with the community to enhance the river corridor and its wildlife.
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It is difficult to believe now but Bank Hall was a working colliery until the 1970s. QUEEN’S PARKThe Leeds & Liverpool Canal once brought raw cotton, tea and sugar for Burnley’s mills and shops and exported finished goods and coal. Rowley Lake was created in the late 1970s when the Arboretum and Sculptures River Brun was diverted round open cast coal workings and landfill tips. The restored Rowley Landfill, now controlled by Lancashire County Council, produces waste methane which is used to generate electricity. Over the past 30 years much tree planting, including the Forest of Burnley project, and grass land creation has restored the area to countryside fringe.
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recreation such as walking, cycling, horse riding, fishing and wildlife watching. Woodland will be managed to supply some wood products and improve wildlife and the landscape.
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