Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
We'd only seen Eaves Hall in the distance from Clitheroe Sculpture Park, but we devised a likely looking walk incorporating it from nearby Waddington. It looks a splendid place - this is just the lodge - however it does seem to be for weddings only, so we won't be visiting...... It's funny but it always seems to be the start of a walk that poses the most difficulties in direction. In this case the public path marked on the map was nowhere to be seen - in fact seemed to be blocked off by a private house. So we entered uphill. Nice ancient woodland, covered at this time of year with ransoms with bluebells to come..... It looks as if this is a well-constructed walk....but far from it. There were very muddy sections, quagmires in fact, and certain places where the path ahead wasn't exactly clear. Plenty of steps and ups and downs... and at the bottom of the wood, below a caravan park a large derelict building with a very long run of men's urinals inside.....very unexpected! One of the largest stiles we have come across - didn't block the way as we walked to the side of it. A stile to nowhere! After exiting the wood which had been nearly a mile long we came across a group of renovated houses with quite smart reconstructed stone walls... and these sheep were the friendliest we have ever come across....they followed Frances as if she had bags of feed in each hand........ We were on familiar territory now, descending to the side of hospital wood to the almshouses and Waddington.
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