Canal walking group – July

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There were sixteen walkers on the July leg on 27th. Here’s David’s resume:

Leeds Liverpool Canal Clayton Le Moors to Burnley July 2017

Our 3.5 hour walk on the meandering canal was one of dramatic landscape and weather changes. As we left the outskirts of Clayton le Moors we were in farmland with long distance views of Pendle Hill to the north and moorlands to the south. Soon we came to a lovely wooded narrow valley as the canal turned sharply northward. Beside the usual canal barges the far canal bank was home to two bright orange enclosed lifeboats normally seen on ocean going craft and a narrowboat in a floating “dry dock”.

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Canal Walking Group – July

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

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