The Rossendale Rambler

Each year during the Christmas holidays the RA encourages local groups to put on a walk which can be nationally advertised and which might appeal to new members, or walkers from other areas. So last year we offered our 13 mile circuit of Pendle Hill from Sabden and got a very good response with several people from other groups including one man from Gloucester, visiting relatives in this area. It was a terribly wet day, I recall, with heavy rain and slutchy going. I wrote this little ditty afterwards:-

If you fancy a tramp
Down in Pendle Vale damp
As the dark laden rain clouds sweep:
Here it’s raining so much
Every gateway’s black slutch
Which gets churned up by the sheep.

Though you may have seen
Many places of green
I doubt that you ever will
Find the walking so wet
As often you get
On the meadows of Pendle Hill.

But everyone enjoyed themselves in spite of the conditions and it was nice to have our lunch at the Clarion Tea Rooms with hot drinks and a cheering fire.

For this years contribution on Sunday 27th December, Walter and I have proposed a local walk of about 10 miles from Rawtenstall meeting at 10.00 am at Kay Street. We will have our lunch break at the Valley View Café, high above Edenfield, an attractive and welcoming place. Let’s hope it will still be open ! Watch this space in the December issue

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