Rivington Pigeon Tower

Rivington Pigeon Tower

had a nice walk today ... almost like a spring day.

Some history for those that are interested ....

Lever Park park is named after William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, who bought the estate in 1899 and donated 360 acres of land to the people of his native Bolton as a public park.
Lever Park is a designed landscape between the open moorland and the chain reservoirs which incorporates the village and buildings of Rivington into the overall design and is one of the largest and most impressive examples of landscape design in Edwardian England. It is of national importance and historical significance but has been neglected and has deteriorated
The park opened in 1904 and contained a boating lake, a zoo, tree-lined avenues and a network of footpaths. A folly, Rivington Castle, was built as a scale replica of Liverpool Castle at Coblowe Hillock near the Lower Rivington Reservoir. Roynton Cottage, originally a single-storey wooden bungalow, and its extensive gardens were the private property of William Lever, which he used for weekend visits and entertaining, high on the hillside below Rivington Pike. The bungalow was destroyed in an arson attack by suffragette, Edith Rigby, on 8 July 1913. The private gardens contained terraces and a pool, a Japanese lake and pagoda, Italian-style gardens, a seven-arched bridge and the Pigeon Tower with Lady Leverhulme's sewing room on the top floor.
The listed historic landscape of Lever Park now forms part of Rivington County Park and is used for recreation.

source :- wikipedia

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