Round the Reservoirs, The Blue Lagoon Traditional Cache
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Round the Reservoirs, The Blue Lagoon
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The Belmont road can be busy on Sundays with motor cycles but a footpath,(bit wet in places) runs from the car parking area to the cache and avoids the road.
The small village of Belmont is located about 3 miles from Bolton high in the hills and moors on the A675 road from Bolton to Preston and Chorley. Renamed in 1804 from Hordern to its present name of Belmont, meaning “beautiful hill”. The village saw extensive expansion and development in the mid-I 9th century with the mechanisation of its traditional bleaching and dyeing crafts; a stone quarry and a calico printworks also came to be major employers in the village. Though the bleach works still survives fully operational, a shadow of its former self, industry has now largely gone, and Belmont has reverted back to a rural moorland community. Nearby is Winter Hill, the highest point in the West Pennines, and now distinctive for its radio and telecommunications transmitter masts. Belmont Reservoir is also the home base of Bolton Sailing Club, as Delph Reservoir hosts the Delph Sailing Club. A third, the Wards Reservoir, supplies Bolton with fresh water is known locally as the Blue Lagoon. An unusual feature of the village is the street name plaques - carved stone in oval cartouches. Edward Deakin, the owner of the local Bleach works, went on to become High Sheriff of Lancashire.
North of Ward’s Reservoir near to the church is the Potato Pie Path. Villagers used to use this path to transport peat from the moors. The landowners attempted to stop this by blocking the path. In outrage the villagers held a sit-in for a week on the path. They were sustained by potato pies from supporters in the village during the sit-in until the landowner eventually gave in. A supper celebrating the successful defence of the public right of way was also catered with Potato Pies which contributed to the naming of the path.
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Gb gur yrsg bs gur boivbhf cynpr.
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