TAKE A RABLE BY THE RIBBLE

Explore the countryside around Ribchester on this glorious springtime walk

- John Lenehan

Marl Wood is at Dinkley on the outskirts of Ribchester on the way to Brockhall. I remember it being called Sale Wheel Wood and as a boy, I remember being chased out of the wood by an irate farmer for camping there because at the time I think it was private land. It is far from private now, with a large car park and a popular place for families to picnic by the River Ribble. I decided to work out a circular walk that included crossing the new footbridge at Dinkley and avoid as much road walking as possible. I think I managed it.

1 Leave the car park by the main entrance and turn right and go downhill on the road to a stile, and a footpath sign a short distance on the left. Cross the stile and then, keeping the woods and fence on the left, carry on to a stile, cross this and then cross the field to a stile in the fence, cross this and bear slightly diagonally left to another stile and cross this and with a wire fence to the left and a small pond behind this carry on to a path junction.