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What's yoour favourite hobby?
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I like hillwalking. But I only started liking it since last year when I started doing it.
Last year me and Stuart, who lives in the flat next door to me, walked up Winter Hill a few times. He's been up there once or twice before but I've never. The hill is just outside Bolton and you can see it anywhere you go in the town.
The hill is 1,496ft high and has a 1,035ft TV mast on top of it which provided TV coverage for 6.3 million people.
But each time we walk up the hill we cheat, as Stuart drives us about a third of the way up the hill and we park up on a little lane called Coal Pit Lane. We then get out of the car and start ascending the hill on foot. It's knackering but it's very beautiful up there with great views.
First we walk past a reservoir, then it's just all bleak and desolate moorland with no trees but, as we keep climbing, the huge mast just keeps getting nearer and nearer and looms above us. You can walk right up to the bottom of the mast and there is actually some buildings at the bottom of it and a two-laned tarmac road running past it. There is a plaque giving info on the mast, including that it was erected in 1965.
Near the mast is an old post known as the Scotsman's Stump which reminds us of a murder which took place on the hill. On 9 November 1838 George Henderson, a Scottish merchant walking over the hill from Bolton to Blackburn, was murdered by gunshot along the road directly opposite where the television station now stands. James Whittle, a 22-year-old collier from Belmont, was brought to court and found guilty of murder. However, he was found not guilty at a second trial in Lancaster.
There is also a plaque nearby marking the exact spot of a 1958 plane crash which killed 35 people.
Not too far away from the mast is the highest point of Winter Hill and on a clear day you can see for miles. Away in the distance you can see Blackpool Tower, the Irish Sea, the mountains of the Lake District, Liverpool's Albert Docks and the northern coastline of Wales and the mountains of Snowdonia.
About half a mile along the hill from the mast is Rivington Pike, which is a small stone building built on a grassy mound which was built about 300 years ago as a hunting lodge. Chiselled into its stone walls is grafitti which dates as far back as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The the hill surrounding the Pike is very desolate and spooky.
Whilst at Rivington Pike you can see Bolton Wanderers' Reebok Stadium down below, which literally sits at the foot of Winter Hill.
Is a great walk up there and it's a good way to spend the day.
Me and stuart have also once walked up Pendle Hill near Chorley which is synonymous with the witch trials of the 17th Century. That place is spooky.0 -
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What's the one thing you are passionate about doing (apart from drinking socialising), the passtime that gives you must enjoyment?
For me it's (playing) football and horse racing.
*in before 'Yore Ma', 'fapping' & 'Blasting people with piss' :rolleyes:
The first thing I thought was what dickheads are going to think they are original and say 'yor ma, fapping, blast with piss'. Yawn! :rolleyes:
For me, it is watching a really good film (not porn :rolleyes:) I joined one of those online DVD clubs a few months ago that you can choose what you want and as you watch them you send them back and get new ones. It's brilliant
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I like hillwalking. But I only started liking it since last year when I started doing it.
Last year me and Stuart, who lives in the flat next door to me, walked up Winter Hill a few times. He's been up there once or twice before but I've never. The hill is just outside Bolton and you can see it anywhere you go in the town.
The hill is 1,496ft high and has a 1,035ft TV mast on top of it which provided TV coverage for 6.3 million people.
But each time we walk up the hill we cheat, as Stuart drives us about a third of the way up the hill and we park up on a little lane called Coal Pit Lane. We then get out of the car and start ascending the hill on foot. It's knackering but it's very beautiful up there with great views.
First we walk past a reservoir, then it's just all bleak and desolate moorland with no trees but, as we keep climbing, the huge mast just keeps getting nearer and nearer and looms above us. You can walk right up to the bottom of the mast and there is actually some buildings at the bottom of it and a two-laned tarmac road running past it. There is a plaque giving info on the mast, including that it was erected in 1965.
Near the mast is an old post known as the Scotsman's Stump which reminds us of a murder which took place on the hill. On 9 November 1838 George Henderson, a Scottish merchant walking over the hill from Bolton to Blackburn, was murdered by gunshot along the road directly opposite where the television station now stands. James Whittle, a 22-year-old collier from Belmont, was brought to court and found guilty of murder. However, he was found not guilty at a second trial in Lancaster.
There is also a plaque nearby marking the exact spot of a 1958 plane crash which killed 35 people.
Not too far away from the mast is the highest point of Winter Hill and on a clear day you can see for miles. Away in the distance you can see Blackpool Tower, the Irish Sea, the mountains of the Lake District, Liverpool's Albert Docks and the northern coastline of Wales and the mountains of Snowdonia.
About half a mile along the hill from the mast is Rivington Pike, which is a small stone building built on a grassy mound which was built about 300 years ago as a hunting lodge. Chiselled into its stone walls is grafitti which dates as far back as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The the hill surrounding the Pike is very desolate and spooky.
Whilst at Rivington Pike you can see Bolton Wanderers' Reebok Stadium down below, which literally sits at the foot of Winter Hill.
Is a great walk up there and it's a good way to spend the day.
Me and stuart have also once walked up Pendle Hill near Chorley which is synonymous with the witch trials of the 17th Century. That place is spooky.
tl;dr ?
I really really really really love hills0 -
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