Brickcroft Nature Reserve Ramble Distance: 8km (5 miles). NB: Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear; keep to the paths and close gates. Please keep dogs under control, and do not leave any litter. WP1 Turn left outside the Visitor Centre, and head through the lower car park, through a kissing gate and alongside the lake. Turn left when the path splits, and go through a kissing gate, cross a small road, and go through another kissing gate opposite. Follow the path, passing the lake on your right and exit through a kissing gate. Follow the tarmac path until it meets a road, and cross. Turn immediately left, with the wall on your right, until you meet another road. Cross this road, turn left onto the track through a small woodland. When the track meets a tarmac path (in a small park), proceed right, and go through the metal kissing gate to the main road. Dot Waypoints WP2 Turn right along the main road. Proceed to a hardware shop, and cross the busy road to the bridleway opposite. Proceed along the bridleway until a T- junction, then turn left and follow this track, which passes housing on your left and opens out into countryside with hedges along each side. Follow this until a sharp left bend with a large garden wall on your right. Turn right into the enclosed public footpath between a wall and a fence. Proceed over a stile, cross the field diagonally to a stile in the far corner, and keep in a straight line ahead to the field gate and stile. Turn right, and proceed on a small road. Dot Waypoints WP3 Opposite the first house on the right, turn left over a footbridge. Proceed along the field, with the hedge on your right, until you meet a stile. Cross this, and head for the footbridge in the corner, ignoring the stile in the hedge on right. Continue in a straight line, with a water-filled gully on your right, to meet a marsh bank. Proceed left with Longton marsh on the right. You are now on the Ribble Way. Continue along the bank, and cross the stile with a large seat on the left. Proceed, ignoring the first stile and gate on your left, and cross the stile facing you. Cross the small field to a footbridge, keeping the hedge on your left. Continue straight towards the farm buildings, where a fence on the left meets a gate. Head for the field gate in the hedge straight ahead. Dot Waypoints WP4 Turn right onto the road, and continue for approximately 1.2km (3/4 mile), past the old stone railway bridge supports, and turn left onto a public footpath at the end of the houses on your left. Go through two concrete kissing gates that mark the old Preston-Southport railway line. Continue ahead, and cross the stile and footbridge. Keep the hedge on your left, and follow it to the road. Cross a stile, and turn right onto the road. Follow this road to a T- junction; Brickcroft Visitor Centre is opposite the main road. Dot Waypoints