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Tesco Rambler · 11-07-2013, 21:15

Look, you can't go wrong (however I was last there in 2007): take the Kings Highway from Huncoat and walk up the hill which is quite steep from Burnley Road. Keep going and as you reach the top on your left there is lots of modern workings presumably for the Huncoat brick works. Keep walking up the well defined straight road with 3 to 5 ' banks on either side. The banks will become smaller and the clay road fairly straight. Eventually on your left set back from the road in some fields is a farm which by now may be a tip of old machines and trucks. Keep going up the well defined road (you must pass through a gate and you will be on the mores proper. There is no fence on the right but a wall on the left and the walking becomes a bit of an upward climb. After a while the track descends into a sort of dogleg curve and if you look you should see a style in the wall to your left. Follow the footpath over the style and keep going until you reach a wall which delineates the farmer's field from the moor of Hamildon Hill. In the farmer's field you will see the low ruins of an old farm. Go to the wall and look over it to the expanse of boggy ground which is the base of Hamildon hill. Use your eyes and you will see a large mound which is the spoil heap of an very old coal pit.

11-07-2013, 21:15	#18
Tesco Rambler I am Banned Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: South Midlands Posts: 76 Liked: 9 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Mines on the moors Look, you can't go wrong (however I was last there in 2007): take the Kings Highway from Huncoat and walk up the hill which is quite steep from Burnley Road. Keep going and as you reach the top on your left there is lots of modern workings presumably for the Huncoat brick works. Keep walking up the well defined straight road with 3 to 5 ' banks on either side. The banks will become smaller and the clay road fairly straight. Eventually on your left set back from the road in some fields is a farm which by now may be a tip of old machines and trucks. Keep going up the well defined road (you must pass through a gate and you will be on the mores proper. There is no fence on the right but a wall on the left and the walking becomes a bit of an upward climb. After a while the track descends into a sort of dogleg curve and if you look you should see a style in the wall to your left. Follow the footpath over the style and keep going until you reach a wall which delineates the farmer's field from the moor of Hamildon Hill. In the farmer's field you will see the low ruins of an old farm. Go to the wall and look over it to the expanse of boggy ground which is the base of Hamildon hill. Use your eyes and you will see a large mound which is the spoil heap of an very old coal pit.