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Around Anglezarke Reservoir

WALK 2

Rivington Moor and Winter Hill

Start/FinishCar park, opposite Horwich and Blackrod High School (SD634128)Distance10.5km (6½ miles)Height gain360m (1180ft)TerrainGood tracks; some upland paths

Winter Hill (456m/1496ft) is the highest point of the West Pennine Moors, and it – or often more precisely the towering mast on its summit – is in view from almost every walk in this book. As with many walks on the moors, there are numerous ways of reaching Winter Hill. This route begins in Rivington Country Park, and offers optional add-ons that have not been included in the calculations of distance and height gain, but which will not significantly add to the day’s tally.

Begin from the car park by walking out to the road and turning right to pass Horwich and Blackrod High School. Having crossed the entrance to the school, take the next turning on the left, a narrow, surfaced lane that runs up beside the school.

When you meet two wide, stony tracks branching off to the left, turn towards them, and then take the rising one on the right – you will return by the track you have just abandoned. Follow the right-hand track as it rises gently towards woodland far ahead. In due course, you pass another rising track coming up from the left, and a short way further on reach the edge of the woodland. The measured route turns sharply to the right here.