I take a look around Cuerden Valley Park, Lancashire

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00:00This video is all about Kewden Valley Park. It's a 650 acre site on an area just down the outside of Bamber Bridge that many of you will know.

00:12And I actually grew up for the first 10 years of my life living on a housing estate called May Park right next door to it.

00:20So I'm very familiar with it, but I haven't been back for quite a while.

00:24Although I have been back with my son quite a few times, but there's been loads of changes.

00:29So I went back this last weekend and here's just some of the things that I noticed.

00:35So first up is parking. When I was a kid, we just used to walk there.

00:40But now we've driven and there are several different car parks.

00:45There's AMPR machines that are scanning your edge and you pay then at one of these machines.

00:52We paid £1.50 for one and a half hours, but the most you will pay for over three and a half hours is £4.50.

00:59Now, some people will question why you're having to pay to park.

01:02Well, that's because it costs £1,600 a day to run the park and this all helps.

01:09When I was a kid, there wasn't a cafe there. That's a recent thing.

01:12And there certainly wasn't one of these coffee vans available, which is a really nice way to start your walk off with a coffee.

01:19I think my son had like a millionaire shortbread.

01:22And this is a new path that's been created from the top of the car park down to about two thirds of the way into the walk

01:32and towards the woodland side where you can go up the hill into the woods.

01:37There's also the River Lostock there. I actually did my GCSE geography coursework based on the River Lostock.

01:45You can take in so many different terrains that you can go walking off piste.

01:51There's the lake, there's fields. Keep your dog on the lead in the fields because there are cattle.

01:57And there's so much more to do now. There's areas where you can go and celebrate your pet's life.

02:04You can scatter ashes. There's wildflower meadows, plenty of benches to sit on, have picnics.

02:11There's a little forge you can go through through the river.

02:14Like I say, loads of woodland, bluebells, snowdrops, the lake.

02:20So it's a beautiful place to go and visit with all the family, with your dog. Just go and enjoy it.