The Great Outdoors

Hollingworth Lake

1 Start/Finish

Hollingworth Lake Visitor Centre, Littleborough OL15 0AZ

GR: SD939152

From the Visitor Centre follow the Rochdale Way NE through Clegg’s Wood for 800m to Lane Foot Farm

2 A fingerpost on the lane indicates a footpath leading steeply up through woods. Follow this for 400m to Owlet Hall.

3 Now take farm track E for 600m to Salmon Well, where Rochdale Way is rejoined.

4 Follow Rochdale Way for 500m N, turning R at a small terrace of brick houses. Keep to farm track for a further 900m, crossing Red Brook to

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