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TRIP TO RIVINGTON

10/4/2014

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On 29 March 2014 we went for a walk around Rivington which is in the North West of England on the edge of the West Pennine Moors.

Between 1850 and 1857 three large reservoirs designed by Thomas Hawksley were built in the area to supply drinking water to Liverpool. This was done by bullding dams and structural embankments and flooding several small valleys to form a chain of reservoirs. These are called the Anglezarke Reservoir, Higher Rivington and Lower Rivington Reservoirs. In addition to these there are two isolated reservoirs in the area called High Bullough and Yarrow.  

The photograph above is of the Lower Rivington Reservoir looking West.
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Heading through woodland bordering the Lower Rivington Reservoir.
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View of the Higher Rivington Reservoir from the Bowling Green where we stopped for a drink. The Horrobin Embankment can be seen on the left, this carries the road into Rivington Village and seperates the Higher and Lower Rivington reservoirs. 
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View of a stony track we followed for a while which headed up out of the trees and into more open country.
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View through Pilkington Woods.

The Pilkington's were an old family first recorded as being in the area in 1202.  In 1212 Alexander de Pilkington held land in the area 'in thanage, six oxgangs of land valued at 10 shillings'.

A thanage could be a Anglo Saxon term for a manor house and an oxgang is an Old English or Danish term for an old method of land measurement. It averaged around 20 English acres but was based on land fertility and cultivation and as such could be higher or much lower.
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Heading towards Rivington Village down a track.
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The stocks on Rivington Village green, these are dated T W 1719
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Close up of the date on the stocks.
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A house in the village dated 1788, this is one of a small number of dwellings located alongside the road that runs through the village.
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An ancient looking pipe carries a small stream under the road.
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Walking through woodland on the way back to the car.

This was one of quite a number of small streams that I saw winding their way down the hillside before flowing into one of the reservoirs.
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Billy
13/4/2014 04:06:32 am

Good photos they capture the atmosphere of the area.

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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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