This is Winter Hill in the west Pennines, near Bolton in Lancashire. A desolate spot made more desolate by its history: the murder of a Scottish travelling salesman there in 1838 is commemorated by the Scotsman's Stump, and a still-sadder plaque on the transmitter building marks the site where 38 people died when their plane came down in a blizzard (in February 1958, a month with tragic resonance, to say the least, for the north-west).
Nowadays it can be a popular spot for outdoorsy types. There's a nice triptych of increasingly forbidding hills - Rivington Pike (where Andy Flintoff used to be seen puffing his way up and down during his rehab months), Winter Hill and Great Hill - for a mini-three-peaks ramble, and a 1,000ft telecoms transmitter that people who are interested in telecoms transmitters like to come and look at...
As a Yorkshireman I should probably be beaten to death with cricket bats for suggesting this. But I love it.
photo by Henry Brett at www.flickr.com.
12 comments:
I should add that this is Winter Hill in mid-July...
Makes me feel cold just to look at it, but it has a certain Spartan impressiveness.
Does the dead Scotsman haunt his Stump, I wonder?
Got a length of rope?
Chacun à son goût, Offie.
It looks cold, but satisfyingly bleak to be a favourite place.
I suspect it looks cheerier on a colour photo, or is that a colour photo and it really is that bleak?
You really need to dunk your feet in a bucket of cold water to get the full effect. And listen to this while gazing at the picture.
Zeph, there is supposedly a ghost, but for some reason it haunts the transmitter rather than the stump. One of your more tech-savvy ghosts, obviously.
It's also a UFO hotspot. I will quote from www.winterhill.org (which also offers, among other almarming things, Winter Hill - The Movie...): "In 1999, a farm worker by the name of Murphy spotted a strange object hanging over his cattle field. When he came out to investigate, the object seemed to move away, towards Preston."
...and why was it drawn towards Preston, one wonders..?
Nice link there Ringo, Anne Briggs, wonderful singer.
Preston? They usually head over to the moors between Todmorden and Burnley, you can see them from my window flying about over the hill opposite, blinking. Although mostly it's only ever people who are on the way back from the pub who see them. Funny that...
I linked to the song and my computer went phut, Regrouped (actually phoned a friend to come and take the fecking thing to pieces to find out why) and had another look at the pic but not risking the link again.
Chilling but wonderful picture. Slightly reminds me of the golf balls at Fylingdale.
Yeah Mimi strange things happened to mine too, it was probably UFO interference.
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