Horse Riding Maps

Lots House Circular Bridleway

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Route Description

Secure parking for horseboxes available on the route: Ring 01524 770802.

1. Turn left and follow Quarry Road to the bottom where it meets Moorside Road at a T-junction.
2. Turn left along Moorside Road and after approx 50m take the first track on your left.
3. Continue along this track uphill to its end, and it will bring you out through a field gate into a large field.
4. Keeping the drystone wall on your right-hand side continue uphill along the field track and through the next large field. Continue over a stone arch bridge to a field gate.
5. Go through this gate and turn right following the way-marked concessionary bridleway down to the woodland. Enter this narrow woodland and cross Tarn Brook via a ford, then up the southern side of the woodland out into a field.
6. Turn right and follow the waymarked route along the top of the bank around to meet a drystone wall. Keeping this wall on your right continue for a short distance until you reach a field gate that takes you out onto Roeburndale Road.
7. Turn left and follow this road past Roeburn Glade (here there is a steep and sharp S-bend in the road) and a woodland on your lefthand side.
8. Ignoring the road off to your right, continue along Roeburndale Road for approx 1.2 miles (2km).
9. At the second cattle grid turn left and up onto the track that takes you over Whit Moor and Claughton Moor, keeping the drystone wall on your left.
10. After approx 1.2 miles (2km) this track brings you to a bridle gate. Turn left and through a second bridle gate and you are back at Claughton Quarries.

About this route

Lots House Farm is an upland stock rearing farm in the lower Lune Valley rising to 340m above sea level at the top of the moor. Currently the main enterprise on the farm is sheep rearing, with approximately 550 homebred ewes. The bridleway passes through a mixture of pastureland and woodland.

The pastureland is favoured by nesting waders, in particular lapwings. On the eastern edge of the farm is sited an eight turbine wind farm.

The area has for many years provided raw materials for brick making, with several brickworks in the area. The brickworks at Claughton is still linked by the last remaining and operating aerial runway in the country, to a quarry on Claughton Moor.

This route starts and finishes at the disused Sandstone (Flags) Claughton Quarries. The route also takes you past the site of disused Brookhouse brickworks on Roeburndale Rd (now Roeburn House), which operated from before 1930s through to late 1960s using shale from an adjacent quarry.

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