Rivington
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Rivington is a small village in Lancashire between the towns of Horwich and Chorley. The countryside around the village is home to many sculptures and buildings built by Lord Leverhulme. The village is home to two halls, a mill and a replica (grid reference SD6286513025) of Liverpool Castle. Rivington was used heavily in the World War II as a storage and training post. There was also a prisoner of war camp where Italian POWs were kept.
The site was home to several sites built by Leverhulme including Roynton Cottage (grid reference SD6391514010) (usually called The Bungalow though it had two floors), Chinese garden, Roman bridges and Pigeon Tower. The bungalow was destroyed in an arson attack by suffragette Edith Rigby on 8 July 1913. Traces of his former bungalow can be found near the bottom of Winter Hill. There were proposals to rebuild The Bungalow but these were blocked by Liverpool Corporation.
The area is also home to Rivington Pike and Winter Hill, and was a location for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
[edit] Hill Summits
Notable peaks <ref>Book : Kenneth Fields. Lancashire Country Walks (2) : Five Short Circular Walks From Anglezarke And White Coppice, Unmarked, available from Rivington Lower Barn p17</ref>.
Winter Hill * 456m / 1496' SD659149
Counting Hill 433m / 1421' SD671141
Two Lads Hill * 389m / 1276' SD655133
Noon Hill * 380m / 1247' SD647150
Crooked Edge Hill 375m / 1230' SD654134
Rivington Pike 362m / 1188' SD643138
Adam Hill 360m / 1181' SD660126
White Brow 358m / 1175' SD661124
Whimberry Hill 340m / 1115' SD686139
Egg Hillock 328m / 1076' SD684142
Brown Hill 325m / 1066' SD644135
Brown Lowe 325m / 1066' SD669130
Burnt Edge 325m / 1066' SD667125
*denotes walker's cairn or similar.
[edit] Notes and References
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[edit] Further reading
- Smith, Malcolm David, Leverhulme's Rivington, Wyre Publishing, Lancashire, ISBN 0-9526187-3-7, The Story of the Rivington 'Bungalow'.
| The Rivington reservoir chain | |
| Upper Roddlesworth | Lower Roddlesworth | Abbey Village | Rake Brook | The Goit | Anglezarke | High Bullough | Upper Rivington | Yarrow | Lower Rivington | Rivington Water Treatment Works | |
