8 miles (12.9km) with 500ft (152m) Total Ascent
Meet at the Visitor Centre Car Park (Sat Nav: PR3 2NL), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.
The walk will start from the car park on Beacon Fell. Unfortunately there is a small fee for parking.
Initially we will walk to the top of the fell where on a good day we will be able to see the whole of the Fylde coast and on a really good day the Lakeland hills. From the top we will drop down to Rigg Lane and then across the fields to Watery Gate farm and on top lower Core farm. Having crossed the road we will then follow the farm track up to Blindhurst farm and across the fields to Higher Fairsnape farm, Holme house and Hazelhurst farm. We will then follow the farm road down to the junction close to Bleasdale tower at Clough Head cottages which was once a reform school. The estate road will then lead us past Brooks Bridge Farm, where a well known sculpter can be found at work. The sculter´s Christian name is Charles Hadcock and his wife is Camilla. An opportunity to bump into “Charles and Camilla”. After Bleasdale school we will drop down to leave the estate road at Higher Brock Mill. We will then traverse the fields to Wickens Barn and after a small road traverse we will proceed to Heatherways and back onto Beacon fell.