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Lever Park and Rivington Pike

Leave the car park by walking out to the main road and turning right in the direction of the high school. Continue past the school entrance, and a short way further on, take the next turning on the left, a surfaced lane that runs up beside the school. Just after reaching the first of the school buildings, leave the lane by branching right through light woodland, and following a fence that guides you to a bridge spanning the infant River Douglas.

The River Douglas is a tributary of the River Ribble. It rises on the moorland slopes of Winter Hill at around 440m (1445ft), before flowing for 56km (35 miles) through the centre of Wigan and across the Lancashire Plain to enter the Ribble Estuary beyond Tarleton, about 10km (6 miles) downstream from Preston. The last 16km (10 miles) is tidal. When you encounter the Douglas at Rivington, the river, once a recognised salmon fishery, now supports a number of coarse fish, including chub, dace and perch, notably downstream of Wigan.