Coffee Stains

This afternoon I went for a walk with John, a friend of mine, and his daughter Lisa to try and find a waterfall in Lead Mines Clough. After parking the car at the entrance to the clough we walked along the path alongside the River Yarrow that feeds Yarrow reservoir and Anglezarke Reservoir. About 1/4 mile along the clough we climbed up the side of the hill to the memorial pillar that was erected where a Wellington bomber had crashed during the Second World war.

Not quite sure which way to go from the memorial, we decided to follow a path that followed the edge of the neighbouring field. This gradually took us uphill towards the head of the clough, and after a short time we met a group of young walkers on their way down. On enquiring with them, they told us that the waterfall we were seeking was a little farther along the path, but we would be unable to access it. They told us they had walked up the stream (literally) and had used their climbing ropes to get up the waterfall when they reached it. After a quick insepection of the top of the waterfall, and not being equipped with ropes, we decided we would leave it for another day.

Instead we decided to go and find another waterfall, this time not far from Belmont church. Once again we were unlucky, this time because there wasn’t much water coming down off Winter Hill and the waterfall wasn’t realy much to look at. Still, I did at least manage to get a picture of Ward’s Reservoir (also known as The Blue Lagoon) and one of Belmont Church.