Andrew & Gareth returned to Green’s Clough, high above Portsmouth and on the historic Yorkshire-Lancashire border, to complete the work started two weeks previously; repairing, installing and clearing steps and improving the stepping stones across two streams.
Fortunately the timber we’d hidden after session 1 (to save our carrying it the long, long way back to the road) was still there. The first job involved rebuilding a step which had crumbled away into the clough. Following that, we constructed two new steps to help walkers start the climb out of the clough into Lancashire and (having found the ground far too stony to insert supporting stobs for wooden steps) installed three stone steps on the Yorkshire side of the stream.
Given the remote location, we were delighted to encounter a happy walker who made first use of the new steps and, on the way back to Cornholme, a family enjoying the hillside views.
Today’s work was funded by Todmorden Town Council. Thanks as always.
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| Deteriorating structure - even dodgier than it looks! |
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Rebuild in progress
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| End result - a safer step and new stepping stones too |
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| Another step. Possibly in Lancashire! |
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| Access to Lancashire now considerably improved |
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| And some new stone steps up into Calderdale |
