Jake of Winter Hill Adventures

This blog is about my adventures, exploring Interesting places around the United Kingdom and in other countries. I live close to Winter Hill in Lancashire, hence the title and a lot of our adventures are local to here. We don't just go running, we find places that are interesting, such as old mines, brickworks and other local historic sites. I hope you enjoy the blog and please feel free to make comments and I will try my best to reply :-) Dont Just run or Walk explore !

Saturday, 16 October 2010

Old mines via White Coppice Geology Trail and the Great Hill

this is Waterman's Cottage

I am standing on a tree ! it looks like a rock but its a old tree trunk !

this is the entrance to the city! -Here I imagined I was discovering a long lost city !

I am climbing the wall of the city

waterfall wall these need climbing

last wall and very very sliiiiiiiiiipy

next to the city mine

in the small mine

a exposed bank of shale ( comment from Dad opposite here evidence of many mine shafts -bell pits )

looking at the bell pit these are the best so far we have seen

a line of bell pits going towards the river

standing between to gate posts at Drinkwaters which was used for target practice in WW2!

Great Hill summet here you can go to Darwin Tower, Winter Hill views all around
- you can see Preston,Rivington Pike,Blackburn

me relaxing on a stone seat - 4 miles one to go !

weather Bright sunshine and cold at start to light rain and cold wind, we saw a lot of people on Great Hill
who did not have the correct kit on ,
one asked us near the top of Great Hill if this was Great Hill , the other two people didn't know either - do not go out without a map and if you carry the map know how to use it!
Take care on the Hills please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

route we took
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/white-coppice-mine-hunt-301356/ 5 miles in total

http://www.white-coppice.co.uk/ good site for this area thanks for site update Jed :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hill about the great hill

Spooky trip to haunted castle ;) or Rivington castle in the dark !

This is a trip to the full-size replica of Liverpool Castle, in ruins at night !

we are going around the spooky castle we go into the secret passage !

we are running away from the castle quickly ;)

Full-size replica of Liverpool Castle, in ruins

Route to castle

http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/rivington-castle-301298/ our route

http://www.about-rivington.co.uk/acatalog/Lever_Castle_Passages.html we went down the secret passage

http://www.bolton.org.uk/rivington.html some General history of the area

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/376963 photos in the day :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Castle the history behind Liverpool castle

Saturday, 9 October 2010

lead mine clough Anglezarke - first explore of this area (back of Winter Hill)

I am starting off on my explore !

I am on a stone footbridge across one of the many streams,

this is a old farm ? we found on the way

this place is called Higher Hempshaws on the map

a old roof slate

a old mine trial near lead mines clough

mine adit at lead mines clough

where the water wheel (powered by water) was that pumped the water out of the mine at lead mines clough

war memorial to a bomber which crashed in WW2 ,I am tidying this up by putting some of the crosses back (above lead mines clough)

I am resting I am getting very tired nearly at the car !
the route we took,
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/anglezarke-300726/

more information re this area

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

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

http://justramblingon.co.uk/anglezarke/searching-for-more-waterfalls-in-lead-mines-clough/

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

weather very windy, sunny -some tracks plus cross country , It was a long way (4.6 miles) for me !