Around Longridge
Is Longridge a village or a town? It has two high schools, a cinema and a good number of pubs and restaurants so this may tip into the status of town. Yet its countryside is so accessible that it should be considered as a village. Large village or small town? It hardly matters as you amble around it; just enjoy the fine

Summary: Distance: 10k 6m
Time: 2 ½ - 3 ½ hours
Terrain: Mainly easy walking along lanes and farm tracks. After wet weather prepare for mud.
Maps: OS Explorer 286 Blackpool & Preston and 287
Directions: From the car park turn right onto

Now on

In just over 100m turn left onto a footpath that leads down to a footbridge.

From the footbridge keep ahead up a slope and cross a drive leading down to a property on your left. The path leads to a field corner and a stone stile.

Cross this and walk to the far side of the next field. On reaching the fence turn left and follow the fence down a steep incline through holly bushes.

At the bottom cross a wooden stile and turn right along a grassy track. This leads pass the rear of a farmhouse on the left. At its end turn left and then keep ahead through its yard onto a concrete track.

This is Lord's Lane and it will take you down to

Walk to the next bend and keep ahead on a farm drive. As the drive veers to the right towards the house keep ahead on a grassy (and sometimes excessively muddy) footpath.

This will bring you to

Turn left and after a nursing home on the right take a footpath on the right that crosses to

Turn right and walk down to the next road junction. Turn left onto

Keep on this for 800m to the point where the lane bends to the right and then bear left over a footbridge on a footpath that skirts the fence of an industrial unit.

Indeed the path now threads its way through an industrial estate to reach playing fields.

From a pay and display car park cross football pitches (or around them if they are being used and you wish to avoid irritating the players) to a footbridge on the far side from the changing rooms.

Cross the footbridge and turn left. Now in pasture walk ahead with the hedge on your left. After another footbridge a track begins to develop leading you to a more definite farm track and Daniel's Farm.

The footpath dog legs right through the yard and then brings you along the farm drive to

Turn left in the direction of Longridge. After 400m turn right onto

This leads down to a path junction below the manicured slopes of two reservoirs.

Turn left at the junction and walk along an improving track which becomes Chapel Brow leading up to

On reaching the road bear right and turn left onto Fell Brow which will take you into the village/town centre.