Burnt Edge to New chapel lane

a simular route 

http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/2010/12/walker-fold-to-burnt-edge-to-montcliffe.html

    

Evie is walking up the path from walker fold farm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collieries_in_Lancashire_since_1854

this is called Chadwick's close farm I looked this up on the map
there was another farm in Halliwell with the same name
http://www.tongefamily.info/resources/chadwicks_close.htm

can you see the mast ? me and Evie are practicing on the walkie talkies

walker fold farm

Leo is not happy we found out later he got his first tooth !

can you see the stone track this is for the colliery !

the stone slabs stopped the heavy carts getting stuck !

this is the burnt edge colliery pit head

some of the old mine buildings

can you see the Caterpillar ?

me and Evie exploring on the old walls

there is a small tunnel here - this may be a old brick kiln ?

a hole you have to be careful when exploring

I am helping Evie cross the uneven grass

the old colliery

the track above the old colliery is very different  they did not lay out stone slabs !

this is the air shaft marked on the map

burnt edge farm

the mast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_transmitting_station
http://www.d.lane.btinternet.co.uk/whvol1.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)

the two lads
http://jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com/search/label/Two%20lads

Evie is going round a big puddle too deep for her wellies !

leo has gone to sleep can you see the mast ?

this is near white brow

we could see some llamas on the farm !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama

the Reebok staduim

we saw a fox here

these look like emu or rheas!

we found some stones six of them , three each side !

the horses were nice to touch

Leo woke up and was touching the horses

the six stones

this collects water - for the animals

me and Evie stroking the horses

I loved this horse he was so soft

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Wilderswood to Tigers Clough / Shaws Clough , Tramway investigation

    

    

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=364002&Y=412895&A=Y&Z=115

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