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I walked from Barnoldswick to Barrowford on a pleasant spring day. Early on there was a footpath which had quite a lot of steps.
The bridleway over the moorland was absolutely lovely with great views all around, but it was fairly hard going with a rubble surface and quite a long climb uphill.
There were lots of moorland birds such as skylarks and curlews.
The southern half of the route involved quite a few field crossings. After Greenbank Farm and towards Stansfield Tower they were a bit boggy and were probably quite bad a few weeks earlier. Other fields were lumpy with hardened mud from horses' hoofs, and some of the field paths were not well used and unclear. There were stiles, kissing gates and horses.
The riverside path south of Blacko and Beverley forms part of the Pendle Way and was really lovely with bluebells and wild garlic. The unsigned footpath leaving here, next to a black and white house, by the river, was also nice apart from some aggressive signs saying "vandals and thieves keep out, police are looking".
Just on reaching Barrowford the route went through a community wildlife garden. This was very nice but the southern entrance could be difficult to spot as it is inaccurately plotted by OS, and it looks like someone's garden. It is directly opposite Factory Lane and there is a green footpath sign on a lamppost opposite, but it sometimes gets rotated by trucks turning into Factory Lane.
Both ends of the route have shops, toilets, pubs and cafes but there are no facilities in the middle.
I would have given this route five stars but for the lumpy, potentially boggy field crossings.

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