family lower coppice and pleck brook walk, accrington,

This short walk has been popular with my two daughters aged 10 and 13. Using my route on a separate blog. From the top of avenue parade, accrington. Walk up past the play area and take the path to the right through the trees after a few hundred metres there is a cross pathways. The tree immediately on your right before the path coming accross is a good climbing option for children. 

Meander through the woods carrying straight on rather than up the hill to the left, there are other climbable trees and lovely bird song to hear. At the end of the path turn right and then when fence post appears on your left take the first path afterwards that goes off between the fence posts. Continue on this across the fairly open field as it drops down to pleck brook. Here you can 'touch the water' as I like to do! Follow the stream for a hundred metres to the drain valve before climbing up onto a field (when the stream is shallow you can criss cross it using the stones within the stream. To retrace to the coppice, turn right and follow the right hand path that leads up to Washington road. Which leads you back to the starting point. 

The walk is just over 2 kilometres with 40ish metres climbing. I would allow 45 mins to a hour depending on the age of the children to complete the walk. 

The tree climbing and stream make me think of the joy many of us adults had in our wonder years as we explored are neighborhood which many children don't seem to do as much now! Keep exploring, best wishes james