Wilderswood to Tigers Clough / Shaws Clough , Tramway investigation

    

    

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Quick Blog tonight ! 

note from dad : GPS seems to have been out tonight !

off we go

the Pike

Video taken showing the mast and Horwich and the Pike

 Jake can vault a farm gate in a few seconds now even in the dark

 Bricked up entrance , the other side has also been collapsed  to stop you getting in !





can you see the small brick entrance ?

 Yates plastic brick

 the tramway has been built up with stones

 one of the mine drains in Tigers Clough

I have to balance carefully as its a 4 ft drop on one side plus its a stream and slippy !!!

the stream I have to cross is very fast tonight !

crossing another stream in the dark 

 looking around at the View ! we watched the planes as well

through the last fence 

http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Tigers_Clough.html
Jakes blogs on Tigers or Shaws Clough 
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/Tigers%20Clough
http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12060.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)

crossing the river
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Douglas
http://www.bolton.org.uk/rivington.html
http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/collections/local-history/social-history-images/200296?term=postcard&s_tags=&sort_by=Title&item_number=199&b_start:int=0
http://www.brianherald.co.uk/home/58422_moorland-stream.html
http://www.wiganman.co.uk/Content/history/Douglas-1.html
http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Rivington_Pike_Tower.html
http://jakeofwinterhill.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/me-in-the-snow-two-lads-rivingtonbrown-hill-river-douglaswilderswood/

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/rivington/robbers-graves.htm
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a35d1e23-ce51-40a4-b558-bce138ad494b
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington
http://rivington.byethost14.com/doku.php?id=shaws-clough-lancashire

Rivington Castle, Just having Fun ! muddy puddles and walking in a stream

   

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/Rivington%20Castle

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 

Leo get to ride in the back carrier - he is really growing up now !

 me and Evie on the way to Rivington Castle

 we watched a tree creeper on this tree - can you see it ?
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/t/treecreeper/index.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Treecreeper
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tree+creeper&hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSW_enGB374GB377&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FjubTsqzNoaX8QOVmYjUBQ&ved=0CEEQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=709
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/treecreeper.htm
http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/treecreeper.asp

 Evie playing in puddles

 Evie and I followed a stream

 I built a dam with leaves ,Mud and stones

 Evie came to help me !

 can you see the Pike ?
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/Rivington%20Pike

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2011/01/rivington-pike-to-brown-hill-to-crooked.html
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2011/07/rivington-pike-to-brown-hill-back-of.html
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2011/04/two-lads-to-rivington-pike-and-back.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_Pike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Pennine_Moors
http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Rivington_Pike_Tower.html
http://www.manchesterscountryside.com/site/attractions/attraction-results/rivington-pike-p129431

 Evie and Me at the Castle

 The mast and the Pike

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/winter%20hill%20mast



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_transmitting_station
http://www.aerialsandtv.com/winterhilltx.html
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/winterhill/index.php
http://www.thebigtower.com/live/WinterHill/Index.htm




see the stats for the mast
http://www.thebigtower.com/live/WinterHill/131P20600705070.htm

 we played hide and seek - Evie  is looking for me !

 Lower Rivington Reservoir

Rivington Castle

 http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=atalanta
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=red+admiral+butterfly&hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSW_enGB374GB377&biw=1280&bih=709&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ekCbTujVJ4am8gOVqaSOBw&ved=0CE0QsAQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_atalanta
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/Butterfly/32/Butterfly.html?ButterflyId=43
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_admiral

This is a red Admiral butterfly - Leo liked these - the flowers did not smell nice but the butterfly's and bees and fly's didnt seem to mind !
I liked watching these !

 me and evie went to play  afterwards

 Evie found a tree which i could climb

 Another tree to climb they were wet and slippy - i had wellingtons on so i could not grip the tree well !

 it was nice down next to the water

 can you see the tree roots ?

 Leo was looking at me and Evie playing

 Leo does not like the sun in his eyes !

 this is one of the towers can you see the window ?

 one of  the towers behind a oak tree

 Evie in a puddle !

 Evie is such a show off !

 Leo looking at me and Evie

 Me and Evie breaking the dams we made before !

Leo looking at me when I was talking to him