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  • montgomery
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    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?

    savoyad
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    Grants Tower, the other side of the valley (across Ramsbottom) from Peel Tower.

    Grants Tower, Ramsbottom, Bury

    It’s a bit rubbish, although its decline has now been halted a bit.

    Esme
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    Waugh’s Well also above Ramsbottom
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    Esme
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    King of Tonga’s Stone at Dovestone reservoir, celebrating his visit in 1981!

    scuttler
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    Binners has drawn most of em. I’m sure he’ll be along in a bit to name and picture them!

    I’ll add Pots and Pans at Greenfield, Saddleworth – https://potsandpanscottage.com/2018/06/18/the-story-of-the-pots-and-pans-stone/

    hopkinsgm
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    Harry_the_Spider
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    Even Radcliffe has a tower.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_Tower

    RustySpanner
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    One at Blacko too, just north of Barrowford.

    nastybobby
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    Wainman’s Pinnacle, Cowling.

    Wainhouse Tower, Halifax is a folly but not in a particularly picturesque location.

    Harry_the_Spider
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    Stubbins Tentering Tower

    montgomery
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    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.

    MrSparkle
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    Turton Tower. There’s one at Blacko too but no legit access iirc. As Rusty Spanner mentioned above. Doh.

    martinhutch
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    Cracoe Tower,

    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.

    aazlad
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    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.’

    https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashworth_Cross_1857_Memorial_to_James_Platt_MP_(RLH).jpg

    lowey
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    Pilgrims Cross on Bull Hill behind Peel tower.

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/nD5Ubz]20140503_122844[/url] by Dave Lowe, on Flickr

    thisisnotaspoon
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    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?

    tewit
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    Compstons cross above Clowbridge Res on the Burnley/Rossendale border.

    tewit
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    Oh and the near by war memorial on Deerplay moor above Weir village.

    wl
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    Mini-Stoodley, other side of the valley by Pecket Well.

    montgomery
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    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.

    greavo
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    Hartshead Pike / Tower, Ashton-Under-Lyne.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartshead_Pike#Tower

    montgomery
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    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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