周辺の天然記念物・トップ8

After a few days of rain, expect approaches to be very boggy.

nice views

An amazing area even when covered in snow

Found on a lovely spot through the Japanese Gardens, via Rivington Pike, up to Winter Hill mast and this Trig point. The pillar is in good condition and set in a wonderful position.

Rivington has got many little gems to offer, one of which is the Italian Lake - worth a trip and hike up the hill. Surrounded by many other features, such as Pigeon Tower and Japanese Gardens.

Part of the west Pennine Hills Winter Hill stands at 456m. There is a trig point and several radio and communications masts on the summit. There is also a memorial to a plane that crashed here in 1958 on a flight from the Isle of Man to Manchester. The busy summit (items rather than people) makes a great loop from Rivington of about 10km.

On the edge of the summit of Noon Hill stands a Bronze Age burial cairn. Measuring some twenty-one metres in diameter, it is bounded by a stone kerb which encircles a mound. A cremated burial sat at the heart of the structure, and wooden posts were driven into the monument, encircling its stony core. Earth was heaped up into the space between the central stony heart and the surrounding kerb. The soil placed in there had once been the ground where people had sat, chipping flint tools. Further cremations and grave goods were dug into the cairn during the Bronze Age and perhaps people processed up to it on special days, to honour their dead ancestors. After the Bronze Age passed, the remains of those that lay there were lost from memory, and it rested undisturbed for three and a half thousand years

Birkacre Weir was installed around 1800 to rise the water level and create a faster flowing river to turn the mill water wheels downstream. The fish ladder was installed in 2002 to allow salmon upstream to spawn.