Local Life - Wigan - October 2020

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74 Winter Hill & Rivington by Chris Pearce Distance: 6½ miles Difficulty: Moderate The vast majority of the Jack’s Tracks we have published over the last ten years have one thing in common; at some point during the walk, Winter Hill and its conspicuous masts are easily visible. We’ve never done a walk that includes Winter Hill though, and so we have put this right with a delightful easy-to-follow 6½ mile walk that encompasses Winter Hill and Rivington that offers wonderful 360-degree views of the County Palatine of Lancashire and beyond. Park in the public car park just the other side of Rivington & Blackrod High School (BL6 7RU), walk back past the school and take the left turn which runs by the tennis courts. After 425 yards you’ll arrive at a three-way junction; take the middle path which is heavily cobbled and has the farm gate in the distance. Follow this path up a gentle incline for ¾ mile, passing the turn off to Rivington Terraced Gardens on the way. Once you arrive at the new-ish looking fingerpost, take a 45-degree right turn in the direction of Rivington Pike and follow a shale path uphill past the site of Stone House Lodge. Then make sure you take the path that branches off of the shale path on the u-bend. 200 yards later you’ll arrive at a wide stony track. Instead of carrying straight on up to the (very visible) Pike, turn left and follow this track for 1/3 of a mile to the Pigeon
75 For those with the OS Maps app on your desktop, mobile or tablet, this walk is named: Quarry (dis) Moor Bottom Winter Hill Flats JT-Winter-Hill-Rivington Belmont Road P Noon Hill Slack Noon Hill Winter Hill Masts P Rivington Hall Barn Tower Catter Nab Rivington Moor TV Station Rivington Country Park Rivington Terraced Gardens Tower Rivington Pike River Douglas Rotary Way Brown Hill Crooked Edge Hill Rivington Lane Higher Knoll Wilder’s Moor Rivington Lodge P Jepson’s Bridge Rivington & Blackrod HS Wilderswood Please ensure you wear appropriate clothing and footwear whilst walking. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the walk is accurate, neither the publisher or its editorial contributors can accept, and hereby disclaim, any liability to any party to loss or damage caused by errors or omissions resulting from negligence, accident or other cause.
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