Quecha Tent sleep over

me and Evie watching a film-Sammie's adventures about a turtle 

enjoy the film.

Note from dad : Lavender to put the bugs off
http://www.gardenerspath.com/articles/herbalist/bugs_poisonivy.html
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf115181.tip.html

Note from Dad the Quechua tent T6.2
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/t6-2-35289237/

 camp fire we collected wood  for the fire - my mum cooked me a banana with chocolate in it ! on the fire

me asleep 

Wilderswood , Horwich family walk

Leo exploring on my dads back

mine adit - this is blocked after a few feet very damp and wet and full of mud !

can you see the pike ? we are going to look at the dragonflys on the pond

walking towards Ormstons farm
http://www.ss-osands.org.uk/ssosands/beep/horwich/timeline2.htm
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4b3af9cc-9607-4e80-913b-786a61a4df87

old mine workings

 one of the horses -sign says do not feed
 Leo with his hat on this walk he kept on taking it off

 Leo on the walk - i picked his hat up several times

me and Evie stroking a horse

the mast and the old tramway

mine adit - this is dry but blocked after a few feet - goes towards cabin pit but does not link up ;)

this area has been felled

Evie hiding ;)

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/wilderswood


my first blog a year ago 
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2010/07/wilderswood-mines-and-tunnels.html


http://justramblingon.co.uk/country-walks/rivington/to-the-wilderswood/
http://prestonwalkies.blogspot.com/2007/04/wilderswood-and-winter-hill.html
http://www.about-horwich.co.uk/horwich/Wilderswood_Mill.html
http://justramblingon.co.uk/diary/diary-2011-week-18/


route taken
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/wilderswood-horwich-family-walk-312610/

Hide and seek at Rivington Castle, Rivington, Horwich

Leo the cutest boy in the world!

a castle turret

the old gate house

we played hide and seek

we are all going to hide in this part

hiding in another part of the castle

off to the other part

Leo asleep

having a picnic

me and Evie playing hide and seek

walking back to the Rivington barn

nice and cool in the shade

Evie hiding in her hat !

what a nice day for a walk

running off -Evie can run fast !

the pike

the go ape at Rivington barn 

http://goape.co.uk/sites/rivington

http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Rivington_Castle.html

http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Lever_Castle_Passages.html

http://www.bolton.org.uk/rivington.html

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/376963

http://www.r-l-p.co.uk/rivingtn.html

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17642

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Castle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lever,_1st_Viscount_Leverhulme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

http://jakeofwinterhill.wordpress.com/tag/rivington-castle/

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2010/10/spooky-trip-to-haunted-castle-or.html

Wilderswood to Rivington pike old mine ,water tunnel 4 miles

me in the wood

raspberries !

jumping over a fallen tree

down to the stream

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main collery shaft no 1 wilderswood the shaft (capped) is in front of this

http://www.heatherandhillforts.co.uk/index.php/en/about/heather/71-bilberry

can you see the tramway ?

one of the horses

we will have to take a look at this !

Brown Hill

the pike

A fast beetle

behind the pike the sun was setting

I could see Blackpool tower from here

old pipe feeding the water tank

T&G Higson Halliwell (part of Bolton)

found in the middle of the moors  part of the water tank - Lord leverhulme's Rivington's garden -

http://www.penmorfa.com/bricks/england3.html

old leval

can you see the old mine

this was narrow -it was wet dark and full of spiders !

note from Dad This is narrow and even jake had to crouch and shuffle along - it was worse for me

looking out for spiders !

video's from the water tunnel

http://www.heatherandhillforts.co.uk/index.php/en/about/heather/71-bilberry
Bilberries 

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Pigeon%20Tower

Pigeon tower 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/97653


http://www.rivingtonhallbarn.co.uk/localarea/


http://www.chorley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1202


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington


http://www.bolton.org.uk/terraced.html


http://www.angelfire.com/in/rivington/leverpark.html


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=125-zhc&cid=1#1 details of the plans held for Roynton Cottage,

Link to the person who designed the  Lever park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hayton_Mawson

http://www.leverpark.co.uk/ friends of Lever park

maps of rivington
http://rivington-lancashire.com/MapsP2.html

Lower Rivington reservoir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Rivington_Reservoir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Rivington_Reservoir

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jed/rivington_reservoirs.htm

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/landscape/landscapecharacass/charcarea9.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/underground/reservoir/history.shtml

just below brown hill

on our way back we gave directions to some people who were looking for the pike !

The pike at sunset brown hill has the trees on it to the left

the sunset had a orange glow to it - making me look Orange !

see !