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Name: | Winter Hill (boundary) |
Hill number: | 5485 |
Height: | 449m / 1473ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2819 Winter Hill |
RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
County/UA: | Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton, Lancashire |
Catchment: | Mersey |
Class: | Current County/UA Top (CoU) |
Grid ref: | SD 66287 14538 |
Summit feature: | no feature: 30m N of fence |
Drop: | 2m |
Col: | 447m SD662146 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 109 (1:25k) 287 |
Survey: | Abney level |
Comments: | On boundary, 400m SE of summit. The summit is the highest point in Blackburn UA |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 279 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
easy park bwlch to the north horden stoops very wet ground no views at tp then winter hill boundry bolton council top 3.8 ks 1 hr 5 mins | underhill | 03/02/2024 |
Parked at the Wilderswood car park to the SSW - best access road is from the SE. There is some additional parking higher up the dirt road, where the fp begins. After the fp it's a long walk up the tarmac mast access road to the mast area for both the boundary and trig main hp. Returned over Two Lads. Cold but sunny in the late afternoon. Solo. | richard69 | 13/12/2023 |
A foggy November Sunday - quite boggy up to the summit. | justin_j_evans | 05/11/2023 |
Parked to the N at the highpoint of Rivington Road. Path beside the wall up to the plateau, then along the tracks. My last County / Unitary Authority top. | PGCE | 30/08/2023 |
From Wilderswood parking. Pike Cottage, Two Lads, Winter Hill BT, Winter Hill, Rivington Pike, Pigeon Tower, Through the gardens to Tigers Clough and Crooked Edge waterfalls and back to the car. | Dan Baddeley | 09/07/2023 |
Parked in pull-in by locked barrier on service road at 654123; space for 2 or 3 cars - Up service road & immediately after exiting the TV mast enclosure headed E. over rough grass & collapsed wall to the UA top. Back same way. | gerrybowes | 04/05/2023 |
West Pennine Way wander, near miss coming up from Belmont Road | burwellian | 13/04/2023 |
Bagged whilst taking part in the LDWA's Anglezarke Amble | dazedemon | 11/02/2023 |
From Hordern Stoops. | summitter | 01/09/2022 |
Quick up and down from the car park. 6.5km in just over an hour | Nicky C | 01/09/2022 |
2/2 Climbed this with the Winter Hill Boundary Hill too - as Part of LDWA joint History and East Lancs Group walks which were extremely interesting with history of the Lost Gardens of Rivington amongst many other factoids. | nickywood1 | 16/04/2022 |
Ascended from col to the N via Winter Hill | JK | 12/02/2022 |
Winter Hill (boundary) > Winter Hill [Rivington 2999] > [Two Lads] from GR: SD 65127 12448 | ronaldo333 | 20/01/2022 |
KJF Tag on to Winter Hill | crazy | 05/12/2021 |
From Winter Hill Trig. Descended to Rivington Pike, Terraced Gardens and Hall Barn. | KeithByTheC | 03/12/2021 |
From Wilderswick Wood | squeegs | 22/09/2021 |
With Chris from Belmont road | citygent | 10/06/2021 |
Entwistle - Turton Heights - Winter Hill (boundary) - Winter Hill - Spitlers Edge - Cartridge Hill - Winter Hill (Darwen) - Darwen. | Mark Jackson | 15/04/2021 |
Parked - Rivington Road 9am. Steep climb to summit, treacherous underfoot due to frozen snow and black ice on paths. On circular to Rivington pike and Spitlers Edge. | Argentum66 | 06/12/2020 |
Solo. From the aerial access road. Went to the boundary UA top after the main summit. Good weather. Extensive views. | mike.hoult | 29/07/2020 |
Whilst on a run up Winter Hill | sturuss | 12/07/2020 |
A pile of stones. | Play2End | 08/07/2020 |
Parked at Wilderswood on Georges lane and walked up where I found a closer parking area just before the barrier on the access road up Winter hill First visiting the trig. One hour thirty for the four and half miles, the Bolton UA top on the boundary is behind the mast in front of you on the bend of the access road as if returning from the trig. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 05/07/2020 |
after trig from Rivington road | colinfielding | 08/02/2020 |
After Winter Hill trig. Parked car near first cattle grid on access road, then walked up the road. | johnkenyon | 18/01/2020 |
With J | GCW | 03/09/2019 |
From car park at Hordern Stoops. Easy but wet track to trig. MEML on map worth a look. Not much else to see, except masts. | iangalbraith | 27/07/2019 |
From Wilderswood car park.Back via Two Lads-a pleasant viewpoint.With Oscar. | catman | 10/07/2019 |
With Catman. | oscarrosie | 10/07/2019 |
Midday, 6 degrees, sunny, SE breeze at Hordern Stoops. Relatively dry underfoot but managed to plunge my foot into a bog. Surprisingly mountain-like climb and surprisingly peaceful. On to Spitlers Edge. | Wycombe Wanderer | 11/04/2019 |
From Rivington, up to rivington pike through the gardens. Then on the Winter Hill next to to control/radio towers. After there, we dropped down to Rivington Road, the on to Sharples Higher End, and Great Hill. We then dropped down to Anglezark, Yarrow and Upper Rivington Resevoir, then finished off with a pint at The Rivington. Bethany. 4h40min: 19km; 550m. | ByronHaywood | 06/04/2019 |
1 of 3 on 5.8 mile hike including winter hill boundary, winter hill and spiltlers edge | The-Z-Man | 27/03/2019 |
Convenient small car park on Rivington Road SD655158 for Spliters Edge, Winter Hill and boundary. | David Evans | 25/02/2019 |
Family walk before any more cake can be eaten | Paganknight73 | 30/12/2018 |
From lay-by on road up to the masts with C. Wet underfoot at top, HP indistinct. 
Then revisited trig. | PeterD | 22/12/2018 |
Parked at SD650126 and followed track and road to Hill summit and boundary | Ramblingpaul | 04/12/2018 |
Night bag while on bivvy with G, Andy, Magical and Kev. Woke in cloud. | MrHallorann | 24/11/2018 |
Good walk | mags87 | 01/11/2018 |
From layby at SD6549215849 due south across great moorland to the surreal summit area. With Mart B and Lucky | John Eley | 31/10/2018 |
On own. Pleasant autumn morning. From Wilderswood car park. Easy walk up metalled road to transmitter towers then over muddy ground to summit although it seems similar height for several metres in all directions. Also to Winter Hill trig point. | Beeliner | 19/10/2018 |
With Chris G | magirob | 18/10/2018 |
Parked near The Barn cafe and walked up through Rivington terraced gardens to Rivington Pike then 'on the needle' through drizzle and thick clag to the summit. Walked past all the masts sites then back to the boundary point (county top) before retracing our steps. Cloud lifted a bit on the descent. With LF. | Skip | 16/09/2018 |
Many Ascents over many years, mostly covered in a six mile training run. | Shutterlag | 28/05/2018 |
Entered the postcode for what I thought was Horden Stoops into the satnav... things didn't look quite as expected for the last few miles, turns out it had led me up the access road to the TV station instead... both tops visited within a few minutes! | the_adam | 21/04/2018 |
With Winter Hill | Tyldesley Paul | 25/03/2018 |
As others via Hordern Stoops again and up an icy path. Good training for skiing next week. I recall that ther were 6 masts the last time I was up. Now 8 making it a contender for Britain's most bespoiled top. A real mess so look outwards for huge views and forget the desecration. | Campbell Singer | 26/02/2018 |
En-route Yorks to South Wales. From the N parking at Hordern Stoops. Bleak with ankle deep snow, wind and rain aplenty, and cloud down. No-one else up here. | jonglew | 29/12/2017 |
A boundary after 3 tumps, alighting from the Bus in Aspull I climbed Haigh Hill, Blackrod then Roscowe Lowe Hill, visiting the community hall (previous church) in Rivington for coffee and cake (in order to charge my camera battery) before proceeding up the Terraced paths to Rivington Pike then taking a sludgy track through the 1st Transmission mast compound then on the aptly named Transmitter road, deciding it was easier to do that and then visit the boundary as an out and back walk. Point visited was in deep snow but I did plot the exact grid ref given. Larger cairn also not far away or was this supposed to be the boundary, visited that too! 
Quite a few families drive up to the top to play snowball fights! Back onto the transmitter road, heading for the Trig point. | Dazingdale | 25/11/2017 |
On the way down from the top. Placed a small stone on what seemed the highest (and dryest) point. | Andrew Pearson | 02/11/2017 |
Solo. Parked at Wallsuches, Horwich on a rough road by Curley's Restaurant (SD 65840 11437). Walked past a better car park on Georges Lane! No obvious summit, so I wandered across all the likely candidates. Returned over Two Lads summit. | ADT | 10/10/2017 |