Wadsworth Moor, Walshaw Dean and Graining Water
Mar 18
2010
This morning was mild and sunnyish, so I went for a six mile hike starting from Clough Foot, along the ravine to Blake Dean and into the woods of Hardcastle Crags before climbing steeply alongside Rowshaw Clough and up to Walshaw, over a partially burned Wadsworth Moor via a shooting track to Walshaw Dean reservoirs, returning to the start along the reservoir access road. I’ll let the pictures speak mostly for themselves, but some highlights were encountering a marshy bit full of mating frogs in the woods (they didn’t photograph well sadly); wonderful moorland views from High Rakes, the highest point of the Wadsworth Moor track (420 metres/1380 feet); a bracing Pennine gale (which wouldn’t be a Pennine wind without some spit in it 
) and some enthusiastic sheep having their dinner. Will definitely be planning more yomps in this area. 
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