Rivington
Rivington is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, occupying 2,538 acres.
Rivington is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, occupying 2,538 acres. It is about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Chorley and about 8+1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) northwest of Bolton. Rivington is a rural area consisting primarily of agricultural grazing land, moorland, with hill summits including Rivington Pike and Winter Hill within the West Pennine Moors. The area has a thriving tourist industry centred around reservoirs created to serve Liverpool in the Victorian era and Lever Park created as a public park by William Lever at the turn of the 20th century, with two converted barns, a replica of Liverpool Castle and open countryside. Rivington and Blackrod High School is located here. Rivington and its village had a population of 144 at the 2021 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Rivington
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Winter Hill
Winter Hill is a hill on which the three boroughs of Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton meet in North West England. It is located on Rivington Moor, Chorley, and is 1,496 feet high.
3.4 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Anglezarke Reservoir
Anglezarke Reservoir is the largest reservoir in the Rivington chain to the west of Anglezarke in Lancashire, England. Anglezarke Reservoir has three embankments: the Charnock Embankment, the longest, is 850 yards long and 31 feet high, the Knowsley Embankment is 240 yards long and 45 feet high and the Heapey Embankment is 280 feet long and 32 feet high.
2.1 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Rivington Pike
Rivington Pike is a hill on Winter Hill, part of the West Pennine Moors at Rivington in Lancashire, England. The nearest towns are Adlington and Horwich.
1.8 km · hill in Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 04Yarrow Reservoir
Yarrow Reservoir – named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir. Construction of the reservoir, designed by Liverpool Borough Engineer Thomas Duncan, began in 1867.
1.2 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Grain Pole Hill
Grain Pole Hill is a location on Anglezarke Moor, near Chorley, within the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, England. With a height of 285 metres, the summit provides views towards the Irish Sea.
3.5 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Holy Trinity Church, Horwich
Holy Trinity Church, commonly known as Horwich Parish Church, is a Grade II listed building in Church Street, Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Deanery of Bolton, the Archdeaconry of Bolton, and the Diocese of Manchester.
3.4 km · church in Horwich, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hurst Hill
Hurst Hill is a location on Anglezarke Moor, within the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, England. With a height of 317 metres, the summit provides views towards the Irish Sea.
3.4 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08High Bullough Reservoir
High Bullough Reservoir is the oldest of all the reservoirs in the Rivington chain, having been authorised by the Chorley Waterworks Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c.
2.5 km · reservoir in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Rivington Church
Rivington Church is an active Anglican parish church in Rivington, Lancashire, England. It is in the Deane deanery, the Bolton archdeanery and Diocese of Manchester.
100 m · church in Rivington, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Rivington Hall
Rivington Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Rivington, Lancashire, England. It was the manor house for the Lords of the Manor of Rivington.
700 m · country house in Rivington, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rivington
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 36 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 37 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 65 km
- Stations
- Blackrod railway station, 3.8 km · Adlington railway station, 2.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rivington68 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rivington119 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £14–19
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rivington134 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rivington
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rivington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.
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Next door to Rivington
Rivington is 18 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Adlingtontown and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK2.3 km
- Andertonvillage and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England2.1 km
- Heath Charnockvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, UK3.1 km
- Anglezarkecivil parish in Lancashire, England, UK2.7 km