6.5 Mile Circular Walk - Oldfield | Oakworth Moor | Wolf Stones

Distance: 6.5 miles

Ascent: 770 ft

Walking: Andrew

Weather: Overcast.

OS Map: OL21 - South Pennines

Starting point: Oldfield Lane, Oakworth.

Photography: Andrew using Nikon D750 / Nikon 70-200 mm f2.8 and Nikon 24-70 f2.8 mm 

This old spring is situated in the wall outside Oldfield School.

A typical walled path of this area. This one runs alongside Oldfield School and climbs up Hare Hill Edge to the long abandoned quarry, Blue Stone Delph.

The view back to Oldfield School.

Blue Stone Delph.

A distant view of Ponden Clough from Blue Stone Delph.

An attempted cairn on Oakworth Moor.

Roms Greave Hill, Oakworth Moor.

Grouse shooting butts on Oakworth Moor. There doesn't seem to have been any shooting this year (it starts on the 'Glorious 12th' August). Presumably, the wet spring meant the birds interrupted the breeding process.

 

Looking across Flask to Daisy Mount with Top Withens and Ponden Clough in the distance

Scotland Hill.

An old boundary stone at Scotland Hill.

Sphagnum moss acts like a sponge, retaining water and slowing down the natural decaying process to form peat. The slower release of water into the moorland streams helps to prevent flooding downstream.

 

Looking back over Oakworth Moor from Thornton Moor Reservoir.

Thornton Moor Reservoir.

The view down Morkin Beck to Slippery Ford.

Soft rush. The stems were traditionally soaked in fat and used as wicks in lamps as a cheaper alternative to candles

 

Walkers on The Pennine Way at Old Bess Hill.

Old Bess (the one lying on the left) was part of a line of standing stones on the ancient boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire. The smaller one with the letters CG (or possibly CC) carved on it is later. For more information click HERE

 

Old Bess Hill.

Great Wolf Stones with Pendle Hill in the distance.

Little Wolf Stones, Great Wolf Stones, Watersheddles Reservoir and Crow Hill.

Little Wolf Stones trig point.

Stony Edge New Delph.

Thornton Hill.

Grouse getting a bit cocky, considering it's only just after the 12th.

Looking back up The Pennine Way from Thornton Hill.

Crag Top.

Ponden Reservoir from Crag Top.

Yep. Another abandoned quarry, this time at Crag Top.

Ponden Reservoir from Crag Bottom.

Up the Worth Valley from Crag Bottom.

Higher Pitcher Clough

A colourful display in Oldfield.