Start: Black Lane Ends, near Colne.[BD20 8EL] Readers who would like to follow this walk should make arrangements with the management of the inn (Tel: 01282 863070) before using the car park. From the end of the M65 follow the A6068. At the second roundabout take the first exit Skipton Old Road. Keep on this until you reach the inn.    

 Fact file: Distance: 11 k 7miles
                  Time:  3 - 4 hours
                 Summary:  Moderate. An undulating route. Prepare for mud after wet weather.  
               Map: OS OL 21 South Pennines

Map by kind permission of the Blackpool Gazette

Directions: Given the Black Lane Ends airy location it will not come as a surprise to discover this is the highest part of the walk but remember what goes down has to come up again.

From the pub turn right along Skipton Old Road. After 100 metres turn left onto a footpath leading across rough pasture to a stone stile.

 Across this bear left until you reach a farm drive leading across a cattle grid around to a complex of buildings called Pasture.

Following a waymark bear right and then behind a house pass through two wooden gates

 and turn left. After crossing a wall when you reach the field boundary before a plantation turn right. This leads to a wooden gate close to a telegraph pole.

After crossing a wall when you reach the field boundary before a plantation turn right. This leads to a wooden gate close to a telegraph pole.

After this turn left onto a track leading to Knarr Side.

At the farm turn right and then almost immediately left onto a path crossing to a stone stile.

After this continue to climb reaching a fence leading onto a recently made pipeline track.

 The right of way is a little further on but this track leads up to the summit of Knarrs Hill and there seems no reason not to use it. At a stone stile follow the Pendle Way which will bring you to the trig point.

Keep on the ridge re-joining the pipe line track which joins a farm drive.

 

 After the track swings left keep ahead on a footpath leading down to Knarrs End Farm.

 Here turn right and follow the track through the yard. As the track bends right to the neighbouring farm keep ahead on a footpath leading across field (accessed by a metal gate on the left).

In the second field turn left and with the wall on your right walk down to a stile in a fence.

 

Cross this and drop to Black Scar Beck before climbing up towards Warley Wise a large dilapidated building on the rise opposite accessed through a gap on the right.

 At the farm after negotiating a high stone stile

 turn right and follow the drive to a lane.

 Turn right and soon after cross a less obvious stone stile on the right. This drops to a narrow wooden footbridge.

The footpath now climbs up to Davy's Hill.

Turn right before the property to access its drive.

 This leads to Tom Lane. Keep ahead to reach Oliver Farm. Here bear left behind the building to cross a stile obscured by children's play equipment.

 After a second stile bear right

 to follow a wall up to Long Syke Edge. A stone stile will lead to a yard and then a drive past paddocks.

As the lane bends right keep ahead on a path leading below an escarpment on the right.

 After a stone stile bear left to reach a diverted path.

This crosses a field to a culvert

and then climbs to Further Surgill Head. Turn left on the drive and follow it past a wind turbine to Hawshaw Road.

 Turn right.

 In 200 metres turn left on a path that leads downhill towards Lothersdale.

 After a squeeze stile in a field corner

cross to a stone stile and then keep ahead to the far corner of the next field.

 Here after a metal gate continue downhill to a wooden gate. Turn right and along an enclosed lane

keep ahead to pick up an improving track

 that leads to a lane to the left of the hamlet of The Fold. Turn left.

This lane leads to Raygill

past its fishery and then onto Winter Gap Lane.

Keep ahead on the lane and after a junction turn right onto a path

 leading back through the farm you have just passed. Turn left before a barn and follow a track uphill through metal gates.

 At a metal gate on the left take a footpath that crosses to the hilltop farm of Nineveh.

As you reach its drive cross it and the wooden fence beyond (there is no stile)to reach a vast field.

Cross this to the metal gate on its far side. Turn right and then almost immediately left onto Skipton Old Road.

A mile of road walking will bring you back to Black Lane Ends.