White Coppice Walk 6 Miles Paddy and Danny

The canal behind Danny is known as The Goit. It carries water from Roddlesworth Reservoirs to the Anglezarke Reservoir.The first part of our walk is from White Coppice to Brinscall, much of which is following the tree lined footpath alongside The Goit. 

The leafless trees are allowing the wintery sun to caste long shadows, as we set off towards Brinscall.

Before reaching Brinscall we took a diversionary footpath off to the right which rose sharply out of the valley up through the woods. Water draining off the swampy land above helps to swell The Goit as it continues on its way toward Roddlesworth. Having reached a narrow lane, we followed it as it fell unrelentingly down to Brinscall.

                                  The lake at Brinscall......

                    ......Where we sat for our late morning brew.

             The main road through the linear village of Brinscall.

The villages of Brinscall and Withnell are to all intents and purposes one. The Goit is culverted as it travels between the two but emerges again as it leaves Withnell. We followed the road out of Withnell towards Abbey Village, but after 2 or 3 hundred yards turned right uphill towards the large Quarry up above the village. A line of trucks were lined up along the quarry road. Once past the quarry entrance we stopped and sat on a large dressed stone while we ate our dinner.

After dinner we continued for another 50 yds along the road before turning left along a narrow footpath which led us onto scrubland.

The quarry was quite vast but from behind the perimeter fence not a lot could be seen of it.

A lone tree on the scrub was adorned with trinkets, memorabilia and verses of remembrance which are not easy to make out in these pic's.

We reached a narrow lane where another gushing stream was also helping to drain the boggy land into The Goit flowing through the valley below. The lane was round the perimeter of the wood. We followed it until arriving at a stile which we scaled to enter the wood.

The path through the wood was mainly boggy and in several places was like an assault course due to fallen trees. The  picture you see paints a false impression of the reality, but eventually we came to a path leading down. We looked forward to getting to the bottom, to rejoin the path we had walked along at the start of our walk.

From here it was an easy walk back to White Coppice, where we sat on a bench for a while enjoying the afternoon sun and watching the world go by.

                                                     DK