Visited Woodwell yesterday (mid-June). I know the area, but the map led me astray.... So:-
From Carnforth - head for Warton, take a left on entering the village.
Skirt Warton Cragg on your right, over the railway, and turn left at the next T junction.
Turn left again signposted Wolf House Gallery. (Local art and coffee.)
Pass Wolf House, round the corner, and just after the Garden Centre on the left, an unmarked leafy lane goes off to the right. Follow it a couple of hundred yards and you're there.
It's an SSSI, and the area is well served with footpaths. There's a long history of communal public use, and parking for several cars.
After the driest six months for 50 years, there was a steady trickle of water falling into the rock basin, from an algae and lichen covered crack in the rock. I would like to see it during a wet spell. There is much evidence of stonework to control the water, including a pool for washing clothes (I'm told).
The atmosphere was calm and still, (though the adrenalin from the ride over tended to interfere).
I hope to return soon for a longer stay, in order to let the nature of the place reach me properly, and I'm very glad to have been introduced to this lovely spot, "right in my own backyard." Silverdale is one of the most beautiful places I know of.
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