Rivington Pike, Darwen Tower, the Peel Tower above Ramsbottom, Stoodley Pike Monument, Lund’s Tower – what other 18th and 19th century towers, follies or monuments sit on the high moors leading over from Lancashire into Yorkshire? What have I missed?
I’m after doing an overnighter from the door, with a linking theme. Waugh’s Well could be incorporated, and that Tentering Tower sounds like it’d interest me (pity you can’t go inside). Wainman’s Pinnacle is definitely there alongside Lund’s Tower, and someone else (thanks) has suggested Cracoe Tower, which’d work well with the Skipton train home. The other stuff more S and SE of Manchester might have to wait for a trip in its own right. Thanks.
Not really a tower, more of a spike, but has an awesome cheeky descent down to meet the Barden Moor BW so definitely include it. Plus you get the bonus of the Rylstone cross.
Another interesting one in Saddleworth above Dovestones. Ashway cross.
,The Ashworth Cross, above the ‘Ashway Gap’, overlooking Dovestone reservoir is a memorial to James Platt, the MP for Oldham, who “was killed there by an accidental discharge of his own gun” in 1857.’
Are all these monuments cenotaphs? Or are there other reasons?
Asking as I passed the toll on the bloody bush path at keilder and wondered if others arround the borders were there to similarly demarcate between landowners/estates?
Are all these monuments cenotaphs? Or are there other reasons?
Some were Victorian vanity projects. The Stoodley Pike monument was funded by public subscription to celebrate the victory over Napoleon. Rivi was a hunting lodge. The Ramsbottom Tower was again funded by public subs to commemorate the statesman and famous son of the town, Robert Peel. Darwen Tower was built to honour Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, and also (apparently) the victory of common people over the moor owner regarding the right to use paths over his land (which makes me feel less guilty about riding non-bridleways there this morning…).
The Aiggin Stone (halfway down this page) is interesting, a medieval boundary marker between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Rode the PBW between Littleborough and Staleybridge stations yesterday, spotting the Saddleworth Obelisk and Hartshead Tower en route. Put me in mind of this, and I like closure, so…
Darwen Tower
Peel Tower
Wainman’s Pinnacle
Lund’s Tower
The Cracoe Obelisk
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