Start: Jumbles Country Park Information Centre and café Nearest Postocode. Follow Brown sign to Jumbles Country Park BL2 4JS

1. Leave the car park the way you drove in passing the toilet block with Jumbles Reservoir on your left. Go straight on passing the Information Centre and follow a broad track that hugs the shoreline passing through a pleasantly wooded area as you proceed northwards.

After half a mile the track reaches the end of the reservoir with a wide footbridge on the left crossing Bradshaw Brook. Don’t cross, Keep ahead to enter steep-sided and wooded Bradshaw Valley. As the route comes close to the settlement of Turton Bottoms it crosses the stream by a cobbled bridge (half block paved) and then a short distance ahead forks right to re-cross it over a packhorse bridge. As you reach a cobbled road bear right to pass Printer's Court a row of attractive cottages and then bear left onto a footpath into woodland. You reach a lane which bears left, and then turn right towards a modern and very posh housing development.

Follow the road right, admiring the houses as it swings right to join a track and then at a wooden gate, just before it turn left up a flight of stone steps to climb to a rise just below an isolated mill chimney, a remnant of the Old Russia Lodge Mill and one of the few mill chimneys in the area not knocked down by Fred Dibnah. At the top of the steps, go left through a kissing gate signposted Witton Weavers Way and follow the path to enter pasture above a pair of mill lodges on the left. Go throguh a gate and continue to Climb to a wooden gate and then follow the path to a metal kissing gate before bearing right and dropping down to a footbridge. Cross this and turn right following a stream up to an elaborate weir.

Turn left and left again, climbing steeply up steps through lovely woods to reach a kissing gate leading onto a track opposite the imposing Barlow Institute. Turn left and soon after enter a field. Skirting the wall to the right pass through a wooden kissing gate on a narrow path. Keep to it as it turns right passing by cottages to put you on Bolton Road

2. Turn left. At the Black Bull *just before it) turn right onto a footpath. This leads down to the end of Wayoh Reservoir. Turn left on the reservoir's service road with the Res to your right and the Treatment works below you on the left. This leads first to Embankment Road and then through the entrance gate of the reservour as it becomes Greens Arms Road on the edge of Chapeltown. Turn left and walk into the village. At the Chetham Arms turn right to follow a track leading downhill to a cobbled road and then a level crossing over the Blackburn-Bolton railway line. Cross and then to left of an of some very modern looking houses take a footpath into pasture. Keeping to the stone wall on the left climb to arrive at a gate leading onto a broad track. Turn left. Now on the Witton Weavers Way (The Warpers Trail), in 300yds or so the track meets a lane. Here bear left as it takes you over the railway by means of castellated bridge. (A bridge that looks like a castle !!) This decorative feature was insisted by the landowner when the Blackburn to Bolton line was constructed in 1848.

The lane beyond drops down to Chapletown Road (B6391) passing Turton Tower on your left. This was originally built in the 15th century as a pele tower. Over the years changes and additions have created the fine country house you see today. 3. At the road turn left and then after 200yds turn right onto a footpath close to a World War II pillbox. ( you can have a look inside) The path climbs at first, then soon drops through woodland to arrive at Jumbles Reservoir. Before the broad footbridge (passed on the far side near the start of the walk) turn right on a path following the shore to your left. The route passes a small reservoir on the right to reach a car parking area for the sailing club. Follow the road for a 100yards or so before turning left over a footbridge to join a broad track.

Keep ahead until a wooden fence on the left signals the start of properties which are on Grange Road. After passing Grange Manor on the left take the second footpath on the left ( the first doesn’t have a sign) which takes you into Ousel Nest Meadows. Follow the path as it drops to below to another track and go left to reach the dam end of Jumbles Reservoir and a green painted footbridge. On the far side climb steeply through trees to arrive at the car park