INCHFIELD MOOR, TODMORDEN

Mick took us on one of his cross country adventures and left Ian, Bernard, Peter and Ginny to work on Inchfield moor in a clough on the Lancashire border.  It was very beautiful and very cold.

There were 2 tasks. One was to try and preserve a bridge which would soon be rotting due to the water cascading down onto it from the bridleway above.

                                    We put two boards in place to divert the water off the bridge.

But the rubble on the bridge was held firmly in place by the ice and the planned clean sweep was not possible today!

The second job was to try and find the drain under a wide collapsed bridge to avoid the water pooling on the crossing point  and then flowing round the end of it.

                                              

   
                          Bernard and Peter searched both sides of it and a small hole was found.

A lot of digging was done the other side, but no hole was found and so the original channel  was cleared to allow the swamp to be drained. (As Donald Trump would say).

                                              There are now two easy ways to cross the stream.

Mick and Linda went on to re-erect finger posts on the Tod Centenary Way and repair a stile on the Calderdale Way north of Great Rock.