Knowl Hill and Greenbooth Walk

A 14 km mid-winter walk above the town of Rochdale, with superb views stretching from the Pennines across to the Wrekin, Welsh Hills and Snowdon. 

The landscape was shaped by glaciers 10 000 BCE, followed by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, early farmers and more recently, local farming communities and the miners of the Rossendale Coalfield, along with the needs of the industrial revolution and ever-growing towns.

Highlights of the walk include;

• The summit of Knowl Hill at 419m and taking in the views before us. Flint tools and arrowheads have been found at the summit, dating from Mesolithic (15000 – 5000 BCE) to Bronze Age (1200 BCE) times.
• Walking around the reservoirs in the Naden Valley. The Naden reservoirs were built in the 1840’s above Green Booth village. Greenbooth reservoir was built in the 1950s to meet the further demands of water for Rochdale and opened in 1965, submerging the village.
• View across Ashworth Moor Reservoir. Completed in 1905, during the digging, a palstave, a Bronze Age axe-like implement, cast from bronze was discovered. It remains a relatively rare find in the county, with only six others of this type being discovered. The palstave dates from around 1400-1200BC and is housed in Manchester Museum.

Our walk will finish  at Owd Betts pub.

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