A family history walk around the moors above Walsden

The next few posts describe a walk from Walsden carried out a few summers ago. The walk visited a number of places where Hileys/Highleys lived in the 1800s and late 1700s.

The walk is in two sections. The first and longer section starts off near Allescholes on the Rochdale Road heading out of Walsden towards Littleborough, visits a number of places on the Ramsden moors with Hiley connections before returning to Walsden. After a short walk back into Walsden village it then heads out on another circuit up onto the Inchfield moors before dropping down to Gauxholme and returning along the canal bank to Walsden.

The walk is shown in red on the map below, taken from the current Ordnance Survey edition. Don't forget to click on the map for an enlarged version. The numbers in red refer to particular places where Hileys lived. Each one will be the subject of a separate post which will tell you about the place and the Hileys who lived there.

An early viewpoint on the walk - Bottoms, Walsden
Taken from Lower Allescholes