Bleasdale

Enjoy an easy walk through Wyre village's ancient past

- Walk devised by Dotcom Walkers John & Vicky Livesley. Described by Bob Clare

St Eadmer Church, Bleasdale

There are some places where nothing happens and there are some places where lots happens even though the time between things occurring is separated by the odd 1,000 years-Bleasdale is one such place.

It is a scattered settlement located in an upland plateau enclosed by spurs from the Bowland Fells which form a natural amphitheatre 600ft above sea level. Here bronze age farmers lived and died in the time before Roman occupation. Two millennia later one of the first Victorian reform schools was established to keep delinquent youngsters out of prison. The walk below is an easy circuit of the area passing sites ancient and modern(ish).

Start/finish: St. Eadmer Church, Bleasdale PR3 1UY What3Words:///bandstand.dose.rental

Time: 2-3hours

Grade: Easy

Map: OS OL41 The Forest of Bowland

Directions: With the church on your right keep ahead over a cattle grid onto a broad farm track. At Vicarage Farm take a permissive path on the right leading to Bleasdale Circle. After negotiating two marshy fields the path enters the enclosure of this scheduled ancient monument. (On the OS map it shows this is in the centre of a conifer plantation, but this has been removed.)