Walking Maps

Brungerley Bridge to Grindleton Bridge via West Bradford Bridge

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Walk Description

Areas of Brungerley Park are fully accessible to wheelchair users.

1. Walk through Brungerley Park along the lower riverside path – waymarked ‘Ribble Way’.
2. At the Crosshill Nature Reserve take the left fork, through a kissing gate and follow the riverbank to West Bradford Bridge.
3. On reaching the Bridge, exit to the main road and cross over to the lay-by opposite. Take the path to the river via the kissing gate. Follow the riverbank past a pump house, then over a small limestone outcrop until you reach the second bench.
4. Bear away from the river and follow the elevated path to a metal kissing gate. When the path veers right alongside a hedge look for a kissing gate on your left. This brings you out on the Grindleton-Chatburn road.
5. Turn left, taking the road alongside the river over Grindleton Bridge and up to a T-junction. Turn left, then left again into Ribble Avenue - follow until you reach a small gate that brings you out at the river.
6. Turn right and follow the river to the water treatment works. From here the path skirts around the perimeter and rejoins the riverbank further down. After crossing over two small wooden bridges the path brings you out on the West Bradford road.
7. Turn left and just before the bridge take the steps on your right, down to the river. Walk along the river until you come to a posted ‘No Right of Way’ sign.
8. Turn right and keeping the hedgerow to your left go through two kissing gates.
9. From here take a bearing left that will guide you through two fields to a disused quarry. Beyond the quarry are open fields.
10. Take a diagonal route to a farm track. Cross this via two stiles. Take a bearing left of the telegraph pole until you reach a farmyard. This brings you out on the road between Waddington and West Bradford.
11. Turn left, then left again opposite the school and through a kissing gate. Cross the fields until you come to a barn and farm track. Take this track which will bring you out to the Waddington road. Turn left and walk towards Brungerley Bridge.

About this walk

Explore the Sculpture Trail through Brungerley Park, which leads you into Crosshills Nature Reserve. Now managed by Lancashire Wildlife Trust, this old limestone quarry was last worked in the early 1900s with a mineral railway link to the railway and work sites on the other side of the road. It’s worth a small detour into the quarry bottom to explore the flower-rich limestone grassland.

In fields to the south east of Waddington the route takes you through the site of Waddington Tile Works. Remains include overgrown clay pits that support a wealth of damp grassland flowers and grasses. Here agricultural products including land drainage tiles were made between c1873 and c1950.

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