Maps, directions & general information                                                             

DIRECTIONS & MEETING POINTS

Please respect the access for local residents. PLEASE DO NOT OBSTRUCT TRACKS.

Meeting arrangements for clients booked in for lessons or tandem flights: www.airborne.uk.com/Meeting_arrangements.htm

For detailed map just click any of the links below. If you are experiencing problems with your browser, try going to www.multimap.com  or www.streetmap.co.uk and typing the post code in.

1. Main Training Site  
Nearest post code Red Lion  OL12 8PY (Grid ref: 889175 Sheet 109) Nearest town - Rochdale.
 From the M62 take either junction 20 or 21 and follow signs for Rochdale.
Pick up the A671 for Bacup (NOT OLDHAM!) and continue for approximately 5 miles into Whitworth.
Just after the Dog & Partridge pub turn right onto Church Street.  After 100 yards go straight over the Mini roundabout onto Taylor Street.  After another 100 yards the road takes a sharp right uphill.  Bear left halfway around the corner onto Whitworth Rake.  This road passes above our watering hole, the Red Lion which has the above postcode 
Continue over the cattle grid in the road. After 500 yards, park off the road, 100m after the No. 9 golf Tee on the right. 

After meeting it may be necessary to drive to a different side of the hill via some dirt tracks, this is not a problem for most vehicles, but sports cars and cars with low ground clearance may not be suitable.  In this situation drivers may choose to leave their vehicles, entirely at their own risk and carry on by foot  or ask for a lift with a fellow student.

Map here

2. Whitehouse Pub' Lower Car Park  
Post Code OL15 0LG (Grid Ref: SD 973164 sheet 109.) Nearest town Rochdale

From west M62 leave at Junction 21. signposted Milnrow.
At the island at the bottom of the slip road turn left up to the traffic light (Half a mile). Then turn right and continue for a further 200 yards. Turn left at the bollards, then go up the hill (For about 250 yards) and then turn left (Sign-posted Hollingworth Lake Country Park).

Continue to a T- Junction and then turn right, road continues past Hollingworth Lake, sharp left-hand bend to a T -Junction, turn right (Sign pasted A58 Halifax) Road continues up into the Pennine hills for about 2 miles to the Whitehouse pub, on the left. Park in the lower car park.

Map here

3. Airborne Centre, Unit 1, Hey End Farm  
Post code HX2 6JN (Grid reference 030238 Sheet 104) HX2 6JN 

Sat Nav (Tom Tom) will get you onto Shield Hall Lane within 200m. Look for a windsock and a sign at the end of our track which meets Shield Hall Lane. Nearest town Halifax

Unless you are coming via Hebden Bridge do not go to Luddendenfoot, - that is our postal address based on 17th century footpaths and pack horse tracks!!

  1. From J22  M62, head for Ripponden & Sowerby Bridge - about 10 minutes. just before the town of Sowerby Bridge turn left onto Sowerby Street before going under a railway bridge. Drive past Tesco superstore and continue up the hill. Then following (c) below

  2. From Junction 24 M62 drive into Sowerby Bridge, go over the river then turn right just after the railway bridge, opposite Cafe No. 5, on to Sowerby Street. Drive past Tesco superstore and continue up the hill. Then following (c) below

  3. After 1/2 mile or so, turn right at the Church Style Inn, onto Pinfold Lane. After about 500 yards, you cross a section of raised cobbles in the road. Fork left immediately after them onto Shield Hall Lane. (You are now in the land of fields, high dry stone walls and narrow country lanes). Continue for 400 yards until you reach the first and only row of cottages on the left. STOP! Opposite is a track sign-posted Hey End Farm. Drive down to the end of this track. We are in the timber unit on the left of the track. PLEASE DO NOT OBSTRUCT THE TRACK.

4. PENDLE HILL
Post code BB7 9HN Nearest towns Burnley or Clitheroe.

Meet in the small lay-by about 200 yards below the Wellsprings Inn.

From M6 take exit 31 and follow the A59 East towards Skipton / Clitheroe. Shortly after the A671 almost opposite Clitheroe take a right heading for Sabden. Follow the lane up the hill until you pass Pendle Ski Club on the right. Park in the car park 50 yards past the ski club on the right.

From Burnley drive through Padiham then Sabden. You will approach Pendle Hill from the rear. Drive right over the "Nick o' Pendle and then 150 yards down drive past the Wellsprings Inn for a further 200 yards. Lay-by on the right.

From York. Best route is through Harrogate, then Skipton. Pick up the A59 towards Preston. When you see signs for Clitheroe you will see a huge hill on your left. This is Pendle Hill. Look for a sign on the left for Saben. Take this road for 1 mile until you are about 200 yards below the Wellsprings Inn.

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5. WINTER HILL meeting point (rare)

Ye Jolly Crofters, Chorley Old Rd Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire, BL6 6RE

Meet on Georges Lane opposite Ye Jolly Crofters on Chorley Old Road in Horwich:

Map here

These are the general directions from the M61.

Take Junction 6 and head for Horwich on the A6027, go past the Reebock Football stadium across the first Roundabout at the 2nd roundabout turn left and then take the first right (onto an estate) -  Claypool Lane at the end turn right onto New Chapel Lane and continue until you meet B6226 Old Chorley Rd. The Jolly Crofters, is on the left hand side. Directly opposite is Georges Lane. We meet about 1/2 mile up Georges Lane just after the quarry entrance

6. EDENFIELD -
Meet in the lay-by opposite the Owd Betts pub Edenfield Rd, Norden, Rochdale, Lancashire, OL12 7TY

A680 just off M66 J1 nr Ramsbottom

Flying site with limited parking about 1m north on the right and next to the main road (A680) For that reason we will share cars and leave some at the pub.

map here

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7. Parlick Fell, Chipping Village

Meet at Cobbled corner cafe - if bad weather meet inside, if good weather outside
2 Club Lane
Chipping
Preston
Lancashire
PR3 2QH

Parlick is about 1 mile north from this meeting point

Map here

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8. Ceder Court Hotel J24 M62

Cedar Court Huddersfield/Halifax
Ainley Top, Lindley Moor Road
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
HD3 3RH

Map here

 

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