David has researched the next leg and below is his preview:

Leeds Liverpool Canal Clayton le Moors to Burnley July 2017

This section of the canal takes us into the heart of what was once one of the most important cotton weaving towns in the world with 79,000 looms in 1900. However our walk starts in the much humbler town of Clayton le Moors which was for a while in the early 1800s the western terminus of the eastern section of the canal and these buildings remain a little to the west of our starting point at bridge 114b

As we leave the town we are soon into open country often with long distance views following a looping route eastwards sharing the slightly undulating plateau with the M65 and the railway.. After a couple of miles we pass an attractive wooded ravine which is to the south of Altham which though not having a canalside location was once home to bargees and canal workers. Soon we may be able to see Shuttleworth Hall, a large farmhouse built in mid 1600’s The first small town we meet is Hapton formerly a mining and chemical industries town which used to supply textile printers. To the north is Padiham where the grander National Trust Gawthorpe Hall is it was restored and remodeled in the mid 1800’s. A little to the south of the canal are a few stone remains of Hapton Castle a 13th century tower keep and ditch in appropriately named Castle Clough. Nearby are even fewer remains of a later structure known as Hapton Tower.
Soon we arrive at the evocatively named Rose Grove an industrial suburb of Burnley, where the canal broadens and some waterside buildings has been restored. A little after is our first canal tunnel where the towpath stops ( boats used to be “legged” through) and the horses (and ourselves) walked over the top of what is known as the Gannow tunnel. We rejoin our circuitous canal passing over the M65 on a new aqueduct near to Burnley Barracks station and head into industrial Burnley which through a regeneration area known as the “Weaver’sTriangle” which though grim in parts is now one of the finest surviving Victorian industrial landscapes in the country. One of the mills, Victoria Mill has been converted into a University Technical College. Soon we reach “Burnley Wharf” which is a fine collection of 19th century grey slate and stone warehouses and workshops at the heart of the “Triangle”. It has been brought back from dereliction as office accommodation, a pub the “Inn on the Wharf” and visitor centre(usually closed) Here our walk terminates at the Inn on the Wharf in time for a coffee or something stronger before we catch the bus home!