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5th November 2011 - Winter Hill & Rivington Pike

Walk Details

​Distance walked: 9.0 miles

Total ascent: 1634 ft

OS map used: 287 - West Pennine Moors

Time taken: 5 hrs

Route description: Barrow Bridge-Walker Fold Farm-Sheep Cote Green Farm-Coalpit Road-Winter Hill-Noon Hill-Belmont Road-Rivington Pike-Pike Cottage-Two Lads-Burnt Edge-Walker Fold-Walker Fold Farm-Barrow Bridge

A walk up to the summit of Winter Hill from Barrow Bridge with the return by Noon Hill and Rivington Pike.

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Dean Brook at Barrow Bridge
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and again
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On the footpath up to Walker Fold Farm
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In Walker Fold Wood......
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This memorial stone is by the gate that gives access to the moor via the track of Coalpit Road
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On the track up Winter Hill
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Looking back down
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Getting closer
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South Pennines in the distance
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This memorial plaque to the 1958 air disaster is on the wall of the TV station
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Scotman's Stump. Memorial to George Henderson, who was murdered as he was walking over the hill from Bolton to Blackburn on 9 November 1838.
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Views from the summit of Winter Hill. Spitlers Edge and Darwen Moor with the Forest of Bowland in the far distance.
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Darwen Moor and Belmont Reservoir with Pendle Hill in the distance behind
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The village of Belmont below
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Whernside and Ingleborough visible in the distance
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and Pendle Hill
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The view from the trig point..
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All the metalwork is just behind me
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A popular spot with paragliders. The access road for the masts goes all the way to the summit so no lugging all the gear to the top.
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Panorama of the view north
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Winter Hill from Noon Hill. Noon Hill is the site of a Bronze Age burial mound.
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Great Hill and Spitlers Edge
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Rivington Pike
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Panorama of the view north from Noon Hill
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The view down to Yarrow Reservoir
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Pigeon Tower passed on route to Rivington Pike
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Views from Rivington Pike. The town of Horwich below.
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and looking north along the western edge of the West Pennine Moors
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Winter Hill
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The hillside across to Two Lads
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Lower Rivington Reservoir
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Looking back to Rivington Pike
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Rivington Pike from Two Lads
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and the other cairn
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Winter Hill from Burnt Edge
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Heading down to Walker Fold Farm and the path back
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Heading back down through the woods

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