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Went up there today, followed the route on the map I found, I`ve lived in Accrington all my life and I never new we had a gorge!

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At the head of that gorge is a waterfall, when it has rained heavily overnight can be a good photo opportunity.
Also if you go left you walk through the quarry with its walls, paths and spoil piles from when it was worked, and coming down off the quarry by the main road down the old firing range is off to the left. Check out my Hapton quarry photos on my flickr page to give you some idea of what you can find.

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I did see the waterfall.
I feel like a newcomer, when have we had a firing range?
By the way, I thought castle clough wood a much nicer walk than hameldon wood.

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Some great pics there, fathead went for a swim in that hidden pond. Might start taking our better camera out, just a bit bulky for a ten and a half mile walk.:)

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Castle Clough is a wetter walk if you come back along the stream bed since the footpath washed away. Hameldon woods has two sections, the pines, then a wall, then the broadleaf trees and a stream, the same one that runs through castle clough. In summer I think Hameldon is a better walk, but shorter.

As for the firing range, I dont have any specific dates, however Retlaw has actually used it, so he should know.

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I found hameldon to be a bit too man made, the path was worn away and you can see the waterproofing underneath (if that`s what it is) and the trees where just too straight, like they had been planted rather than just grown there on there own.
I think i might go down castle clough again tomorrow.

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The path washed away last summer with all the heavy rain we had,instead of going straight up, go right, it takes you away from the pines and toward the stream and the bluebells, much nicer. Did you find the waterfall at the far end of castle clough?

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Flickr: davemac43's Photostream this page shows the stream through Hameldon woods, there is a strange bit of carved stone that I can only guess was used to dam or divert the stream for some reason.

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I saw one at the beginning, at the start of the ravine but it`s fenced off.

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Flickr: davemac43's Photostream
we walkers laugh at fences, climb over and then, rip the gusset out of our trousers.

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You could get round if you wanted to, but there was nowhere to go, just a little waterfall then the stream disappeared. I did get a pic though.

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yes thats the jobby, it can get very photogenic when there has been a lot of rain.

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I guess we started at opposite ends. I came from the canal side.

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Got it, I usually walk in from Huncoat, but I have crossed the tracks and canal, and then circled back via th RSPCA centre.

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Pendle Hill in the precipitation, and around Churn Clough Reservoir.