Crooked Edge Hill

Where is it? Horwich / Bolton, Lancashire In which area of outstanding natural beauty? West Pennines How tall is it? 1,276 feet (approx) Write Up Also known as “Two Lads”. Probably not on your average Peak Bagger’s To do list! Two Lads is named after the twin cairns erected here on the bleak landscape of Wilder’s Moor to commemorate the deaths of two men found here in the last century. Alternatively, it is the site of an ancient burial ground as befits the collective characters of a number of hills and mounds here on these sodden moorlands! Whilst it is true to state there there is not much merit in ascending this hill for the peak bagger extrordinairé, with a summit of over 1,200 feet there is a sense of a job well done at the top. The climb up the east side from Rivington is certainly not to be taken lightly and thankfully the majority of this is via well established tracks (in this author’s opinion we might like to stick to the one path and avoid turning the hillside into a great ugly scar!) across grassy fields with hardly a rock or pebble in sight. Drainage here is … Continue reading Crooked Edge Hill

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