Healey Nab
Healey Nab or "The Nab" is an area of countryside owned partly by Lancashire County Council containing rolling hills, moorland, woodland, ponds and streams to the east of Chorley, Lancashire, between the M61 and the West Pennine Moors.[1] To the south east is Anglezarke Reservoir and to the north east White Coppice.
| Healey Nab | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 208 m (682 ft) |
| Prominence | 64 m (210 ft)  |
| Coordinates | 53.6568°N 2.5953°W |
| Geography | |
  Healey Nab Shown within Lancashire  Healey Nab Shown within Chorley Borough | |
| Location | Lancashire, England |
| Parent range | West Pennine Moors |
| OS grid | SD607179 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 109 |
The name "Healey Nab" is derived from heagh (high) and ley (woodland). "Nab" is believed to derive from the Middle-English word nabb meaning a promontory or headland.
The area is popular with walkers and a network of hiking trails criss-crosses the area. The Healey Nab area has two small man-made lakes, "Bottom Lodge" and "Top Lodge", a private fishing lake. The two used to be linked to Lower Healey Bleach Works, a finishing works of the town's cotton industry, the remaining structure of which has been incorporated into the sites conversion into a small industrial estate. The summit is Grey Heights, and near it is a disused quarry known as "Devil's Rock". Grey Heights and its cairn at 682 feet form the highest point and from there are views over Chorley and it is possible to see the skyline of Preston, Fiddlers Ferry power station in Merseyside, Jodrell Bank Telescope and the silhouette of Blackpool Tower, Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the Irish Sea. From Chorley, "The Nab" dominates the landscape and is the first significant height gain in the transition from a heavily populated area to the moorland of the West Pennine Moors.
References
- Where is Healey Nab?, West Pennine Moors, archived from the original on 2011-05-07, retrieved 2011-01-09