Fact file:  Distance: 10k 6 miles
                 Time: 3 - 4 hours
                 Summary: Moderate.
                 Map: OS Explorer OL Map 21 South Pennines

Map by kind permission of the Blackpool Gazette

Directions: Take the path from the information centre leading across parkland into the village centre.

Continue along the main street past the Methodist chapel to reach a sign post indicating the direction to Blacko pointing right.

 Follow it onto a track leading past Lower and Upper Black Moss Reservoirs. Across them - on the left you'll enjoy a classic view of Pendle Hill.Keep on the track until you reach Black Moss Road.

Here turn right and then immediately left onto a public footpath that begins to climb up to Mountain Farm.

After 700 metres over ten minutes you will arrive at the farm house. Keep ahead across a stile and continue to climb up the hill side now in pasture.

 Bear slightly left to cross a wooden footbridge

 and continue climbing towards a ruined farm on the skyline ahead.

At the building turn right and keep moving upwards with a wall on your left.

When you reach the field corner bear right

following the path as it reaches the highest point of the walk. (382 metres)
In effect cutting a corner cross a stone stile in the wall on your left

 beginning a long descent to the Pendle Way.  In the distance the folly Blacko Tower will provide an aiming point for this section of the walk. After 300 metres of crossing rough pasture cross a wooden stile onto a farm track.

Turn left towards a farm (Jackson's House) but before you reach it bear right over a stone stile or go through a nearby gap in the wall and continue to walk downhill. After passing through a small wooden gate

 bear left and follow the path alongside a wire fence.

Just before a conifer plantation drop steeply to a stile on the left cross it

 and walk down to Burn Moor End. After crossing a wooden stile

pass through the farm yard and continue on the farm drive. This leads down to the Pendle Way and you need to follow it for 15 minutes as it sweeps downhill

passing some impressive real estate on route. 

On reaching the Pendle Way you have the option of taking refreshment at the Moorcock Inn which is 15 minutes to the left.

This has always received high approval ratings whenever our walking group the Dotcom Walkers have visited it.

The Pendle Way is reached after Higher Admergill along its expensively paved drive.

 Following the drive to the right you quickly come to Lower Admergill.

Here a concessionary path leads around the property

but you are not obliged to take it as the public right of way turns right past Admergill Barn

and continues to a footbridge.

 Cross this and turn left. This next section of the walk follows Admergill Water on the left to reach Wheathead Lane.

 Here the Pendle Way crosses the stream turning left over a distinctive brick built bridge but you need to cross the lane to continue on a waymarked footpath leading slightly right uphill following telegraph poles.

Cross a field corner by way of a stile and a gate and then turn left to cross a meadow to a footbridge.

 Over this bear left to cross a wooden stile

 and then follow the path as it weaves its way through a dense conifer plantation.

 As the path levels out cross a stone stile

and now in the open cross a wooden stile

 to continue to an isolated barn.

Here turn left and follow the path through a wooden gate,

across a field and then a wall

 to pass Hollin Top. 

Past this the drive puts you once more onto the Pendle Way, (which you'll follow all the way back to Barley).

Keep ahead and when you arrive at the lane turn left and then after 100 metres right towards Intake Farm.

 Just before the farm take a path to the right. This leads around Intake Farm across a field to woodland

close to White Hough Outdoor Education Centre which is on your right.

When you reach the lane turn left

and on reaching the hamlet of White Hough turn right for Barley

which you'll reach in 15 minutes.