A Walk with Rambler
A Winter Warmer Around the Longshaw Estate
Useful Information
The walk
• From the National Trust car park, follow the path down to the National Trust tearoom and Information Centre. • Bear right and then left on to the path running between the lodge surrounds and open fields. Follow this path up to a swing gate next to wild rhododendrons. To your left as you walk along the first path, the raised wall apparently supporting the ground above it is called a ‘ha, ha’, or ‘haw, haw’. Its purpose is to prevent stock from encroaching the built-up area surrounding the lodge, but without spoiling the extensive moorland view. • Reaching the gate, go through it, bearing right alongside rhododendron bushes, where pheasants are often sheltering. Wooden signs at the side of the path point to where children might find places where friendly boggarts live. • Continue along this path until it reaches a large pond.
• Skirt round the pond with it on your right and then bear left past the second stone barn before you reach the road. It usefully serves as a shelter in wet weather, as well as offering information about the surrounding countryside and its wildlife. • Cross the road and go through a stone stile and then drop down to a stone packhorse bridge over the narrow brook. • Cross the bridge and turn right, upstream for about a quarter of a mile, as far as the next bridge. • Turn right and cross the narrow bridge. • Follow a cobbled path, winding steeply uphill and through woodland as far as the road • Go diagonally across the road, heading towards a gate house. • Follow signs past the gate house and onto a woodland track. • Continue along the track back to the National Trust car park
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