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.
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.
Route map
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Dean Brook at Barrow Bridge
and again
On the footpath up to Walker Fold Farm
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
On the track up Winter Hill
Looking back down
Getting closer
South Pennines in the distance
This memorial plaque to the 1958 air disaster is on the wall of the TV station
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.
Views from the summit of Winter Hill. Spitlers Edge and Darwen Moor with the Forest of Bowland in the far distance.
Darwen Moor and Belmont Reservoir with Pendle Hill in the distance behind
The village of Belmont below
Whernside and Ingleborough visible in the distance
and Pendle Hill
The view from the trig point..
All the metalwork is just behind me
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.
Panorama of the view north
Winter Hill from Noon Hill. Noon Hill is the site of a Bronze Age burial mound.
Great Hill and Spitlers Edge
Rivington Pike
Panorama of the view north from Noon Hill
The view down to Yarrow Reservoir
Pigeon Tower passed on route to Rivington Pike
Views from Rivington Pike. The town of Horwich below.
and looking north along the western edge of the West Pennine Moors
Winter Hill
The hillside across to Two Lads
Lower Rivington Reservoir
Looking back to Rivington Pike
Rivington Pike from Two Lads
and the other cairn
Winter Hill from Burnt Edge
Heading down to Walker Fold Farm and the path back
Heading back down through the woods