Here's another pleasant short walk in the countryside on the outskirts of my hometown, Bury. After going up Castle Hill Road, and turning left past St. John the Baptist Anglican church, the Church Inn; and the Quarry, you follow the old dirt track round a bit and come across Acorn Valley (above).
Perhaps more interestingly, standing right next to Acorn Valley are the, for me, beautiful leafed ruins of the old Methodist church (below). Just love how nature and the old church have joined together so well here, it gives an almost Druid-type atmosphere:
Carrying on round the dirt track, you pass a couple of country houses and the wonderful streetlamp below (Warsaw, where I live now, is full of such wonderful streetlamps):
Eventually, you come out somewhere quite high up Elbut Lane and turn right down the latter for a few minutes to get to the Pack Horse (below):
Nice to see that the pub has a special drinking area (below) for all the passing horses from the Smethurst horse stables lower down Elbut Lane:
Just out of interest, there's a wonderful pint of Real Ale called MPA in the Pack Horse, which I highly recommend if you happen to go in there for some refreshment.
Finally, the path going past the small row of cottages (possibly one big house now) below (just past the Pack Horse) leads nicely through a few fields and into Ashworth Valley:
From childhood, I remember one of the cottages above being a small shop, where walkers (often families on the way to Ashworth Valley) used to stop to buy lollies and drinks to quench their thirst in summer.
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