Thursday, 24th November 2011

 

Walk: Rivington Pike, Wilderswood, Two Lads Cairns, Winter Hill, Noon Hill, Pigeon Tower
Start Point: Rivington Park Grid Ref: SD 629 139
Distance: 8.3 miles Ascent: 1,400 feet
Weather: Dry and mild
Accompanied by:

On my own

Comments: An easy walk trying out some different paths to those I usually take. Heading over Makinson Moor to two Lads meant that there was a longish section on the Winter Hill access road. It would be better to take the path over Wilder's Moor. Good views over the surrounding countryside.

 

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Japanese Garden

 

A multitude of paths give access to the terraced gardens

 

Rivington Pike, one of Lancashire's best known landmarks

 

Yarrow Reservoir with Anglezarke Reservoir in the distance and the Pigeon Tower to the right . . .

 

and Winter Hill to the north-east

 

Wilderswood

 

Horsey bookends, with the Pike in the distance

 

Two Lads cairns

 

The masts on Winter Hill . . .

 

and from the newly painted trig point

 

Belmont Reservoir . . .

 

and Spitlers Edge, the path to Great Hill seen on the horizon

 

The Pike again from  . . .

 

Noon Hill, a prehistoric burial mound that dates from about 1,100 BC

 

Cremated human remains were uncovered during excavations in 1958

 

The Pigeon Tower

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