From the A674 Chorley Blackburn take Bett Lane on east side of the road to Brinscall. Turn right into Lodge Bank and park here. The walk commences from the rear of the swimming baths by the lodge.

Facing the lodge to the rear of Brinscall Swimming Baths, turn left on to the hardcore path leading to School Lane at its junction with Railway Road.

We walk across the bridge over the "goit" (an artificial waterway linking the reservoir system at Roddlesworth to the one at Anglezarke and Rivington) and have a choice of three ways: Quarry Road goes left along the east side of the goit; Well Lane ascends ahead to the right, but we take Butterworth Brow ascending straight ahead veering to the left as we rise.

After 400 yards we pass Butts Brow Cottages on the right. Immediately after these we turn hairpin right along the indicated footpath rising behind the dwellings. Just after passing the rear of the last cottage, the path (a rough rushy track bounded by old stone walls) has a rather large long stone on the left, reputedly the grave of a Scotsman. The track is known as Scotsman's Lane.

The public footpath passes old gateposts and continues to rise where the wall and the old lane veers slightly downhill. After a minute or two's walking, two parallel walls on the left indicate another broad ancient highway rising uphill to a small copse of large trees enclosed by an old stone wall. This is Cocker's Folly, a distinctive feature clearly seen when descending School Lane into Brinscall.

Continue uphill on the south side of Cocker's Folly following the wall in a south-westerly direction on to the moor. Make for the large ruined farmhouse of Ratten Clough, passing en route a fairly new wooden stile at a meeting of stone walls in the corner of the field.

The path passes the western prospect of the house and continues more or less in the same direction to the lane ahead. Turn right onto the well defined track, and after slightly over 100 yards we reach the top of a metalled road coming uphill from Brinscall. This is Edge Gate Lane, a continuation of Well Lane, the bottom of which was seen earlier.

On the left a stile and gate give access to Wheelton Moor. This long track continues for more than three quarters of a mile to the Lockerbie Signpost, near the ruins of Drinkwaters' Farm.

We continue for a short distance beyond the signpost to the copse on our right and after this to the ruins of Drinkwaters' Farm.

We retrace our steps to the signpost then turn left down the steps in the direction of White Coppice. This path has undergone improvement work with drainage channels running across it and lower down re-seeding with grass to restore the well used surface. As the path steepens, there is a classic view of the quaint cricket ground of White Coppice. We descend to it.

We continue away from the cricket ground walking through the village towards the bridge adjacent to the ford noticing the attractive cottage gardens on the right. The lane across the ford leads for 500 yards to the two farms behind the Lowe (the small conical hill overlooking the north side of the cricket ground).

Between Lowe Fold Farm and Tootals Farm, the footpath follows an attractive old stone edged trackway between bushes. After a little over 100 yards the path emerges into the fields bearing right with views onto the higher moorland on the right, and onwards to Old Withnells Farm. Clear waymarks indicate the way through a narrow stile down to Trigg Lane where we turn right.

Trigg Lane connected the farms in Wheelton Plantation to the lane running north from Chapel Lane past the Heapey Royal Ordnance Factory. We head west along Trigg Lane and cross the former railway bridge, then turn right towards Lower House Fold.

After a left turn into a square with buildings on each side, we proceed ahead and into a sunken lane. This recently cleared path gives access to Logwood Mill (or Brinscall Mill according to the Ordnance Survey map 1971). The water wheel was visible until a few years ago on the south side of the building. Here we turn right (north) passing some elegant dwellings on the left.

This path becomes rather stony in the vicinity of Blue Dye House. This large residence on the right was involved in the dyeing of cloth. (Another former building on the moors also refers to this industry - Calico Hall which was passed within 200 yards on the long moorland track to Drinkwaters from Edge Gate Lane).

The route continues across fields to cross the former railway again by a level crossing. There is now no sign of a railway or crossing but the direction of the line can still be made out. Here we will turn 90 degrees left onto a wide well surfaced track towards Brinscall Hall.

At the front of the hall we turn right and right again passing a wooded area where archery seems to be practised, and under a railway bridge we turn sharp left into the end of Lodge Bank, the cul de sac road leading back to Brinscall Baths.