Higher Walton

The footpath keeps to the right of the hedge, only to come to an abrupt halt as it crosses a small footbridge a few yards further on. The building company has sealed off access without prior warning. Option one is to turn around and walk back to Hoghton. Option two is to be creative and find a channel to wriggle around all obstacles to bypass the site. Option three, recommended for athletes and Marines only, vault over the 8ft high barrier and walk through construction workings without breaking stride.

Not the most attractive brook, being sluggish with a fair amount of litter thrown in. It carries the footpath between Coup Green and Fleetwood Hall over the brook in Beeston Wood.

The A675 at the eastern end of the village, at its junction with Bells Lane.

The former field at the end of Manor Close is now being built on, as viewed from the next field.

Part of a footpath on the eastern side of Coupe Green.

Carver Fold is straight ahead.

Further away, you can see the spire of All Saints Church, Higher Walton.

Carrying a footpath between Coupe Green and Potter Lane.

It appears you are allowed into this field if you can cross it in 9 seconds, one second quicker than the bull.

Looking across the river valley from the higher ground on which Coupe Green sits.

Farmhouse dated 1661, with later addition; now house. Brick on stone plinth, stone dressings, slate roof with chimneys at left gable, on ridge, and at right side. L-shaped plan, both elements of 2 bays. Two and 2½ storeys. Front formed by 2½ storey gable of C17 house with 2-storey later addition to the left; at the junction, and rising only to the eaves, is a 2-storey gabled porch, the front of its ground floor all of stone, continued above as quoins, with a chamfered doorway, above this a stone tablet (protected by a straight dripstone), the 4 corners and the centre of which are lettered in relief: 1 6/ O/ WD/ 6 1 (= William and Dorothy Osbaldeston) and at 1st floor a 3-light moulded stone mullion window. Right of the porch the C17 house has stone quoins, single-course brick bands on 2 levels, and double chamfered stone mullion windows in all walls: at the front, of 2 and 3 lights at ground floor (slightly different levels), 2 and 3 lights at 1st floor, and 3 lights in the attic; at the side 3 and 4 lights at ground floor, 3 and 3 above; and at the back, 5, 5 and 3 lights. Extension left of porch has sashed windows with segmental brick heads in the 1st bay, low sashed windows in the 2nd bay. Rear has a lean-to in the re-entrant, and sashed windows with glazing bars in the 1st bay. Interior: the C17 part has ovolo moulded beams on both floors, a diamond-pattern stone flagged floor in the entrance hall, cross-corner fireplaces in both ground floor rooms, an original dog leg staircase with turned balusters, and a purlin roof. Remarkably complete survival of interior detail of this period. Grade II* listed in 1960 - source Link

On Gregson Lane.

From a level crossing at Gregson Lane.