Local Life - Wigan - October 2020

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Tower. Bear right at this point and the stony cobbled path
follows the natural curvature around the hills. One mile
further on, you’ll need to look out for some steps on the
left leading to a wooden bridge. Cross the bridge and
bear right shortly afterwards where the footpath sign is.
After ten minutes of climbing steeply up the hill, you’ll
arrive at a fork. Bear left at this point, hugging the lefthand
lip of the hill and once you pass the first mast, the
path bends rounds and changes to a tarmac path that
cuts through the various ironmongery on the summit.
Look out for the trig point which is situated in the lefthand
side of the path and there are also plaques marking
the 1958 plane crash and the demise of a 20-year-old
Scotsman who was ‘barbarously murdered’ on Rivington
Moor in 1838.
reach Pike Cottage. Tun right at the cottage onto Belmont
Road and head once again for Rivington Pike.
Follow Belmont Road for 1/3 of a mile until you reach a
steel bar gate, which bars vehicular access. Just before
the gate, there’s a stile on the left. Go through the stile
and walk on the path downhill through grazing land for
another 1/3 of a mile to the wooden gate. Carry on down
a tarmacked road in the same direction for a further 400
yards until you reach the three-way junction referred
to earlier in the walk. Turn left at this point and you will
end up back at the school and your starting point shortly
afterwards.
The tarmacked path bends to the right, you’ll pass directly
to the left-hand side of the TV mast and follow the path
for ½ mile, turning off the
path onto a grass track at a
footpath sign on the right.
Follow this grass path for a
further ½ mile as it eventually
falls steeply away and you