Sites and Facilities

Clougha Access Area

The Access Area at Tarnbrook will be closed to public access until midnight on the 14 June.

The closure is to allow a scientific survey of the Gull colony to be carried out without disturbance. The concessionary routes, ie the Tarnbrook Strip and the Wolfhole Crag to Millers House route are not affected. Closure notices have been posted at each access point.

ACCESS AT ABBEYSTEAD

Lancashire County Council have completed extensions to the Access Agreements at Clougha and Tarnbrook near Abbeystead. An additional 1500 acres of open access near Tarnbrook and 11.5Km (7.2 miles) of linear access on existing shooting tracks, linking the Access strip and Wards stone, will give walkers some interesting new opportunities to explore the local moorland. Lancashire’s Countryside Service has proved over nearly 30 years how successful the management of Access to Open Country can be- providing visitor management for over 4000 acres of Access Area in Lancashire. Full time and volunteer Rangers play an important part in that work by maintaining stiles and information signs and giving walkers advice and assistance. Erosion is monitored and remedial work programmed if necessary. In very dry weather peat condition is monitored and the Access Areas can be closed at times of exceptionally high fire risk to prevent damage to this important wildlife and economic resource. Sporting use of the moors can continue with closures for shooting part of the pattern of management; under the terms of the new agreements the Access Area at Tarnbrook can also be closed in early summer for scientific surveys. (The Access paths on the perimeter of the area will remain open.)

A MAP showing the new access is included or is available from the Lancashire Countryside Service on 01772 534709 and new information signs have been erected at all the Access points and car parks adjacent to the Access Areas.

This map is based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings.
Lancashire County Council 100023320 2004.