The area surrounding Winter Hill in the West Pennine Moors has many rivers and streams featuring waterfalls that can be visited. None of the local waterfalls are very large or as impressive as the well known falls elsewhere in the country but they are beautiful and interesting to find.
The local OS maps often show almost any drop in a stream bed as little as 50cm a waterfall and often still omit some of the best falls that are not a well known tourist attraction. It should also be noted that there is a large variation in water volume in many of the local streams and some waterfalls can remain dry except after heavy rain.
In this section we will describe and illustrate waterfalls of the Rivington and Winter Hill areas, many of which remain unknown except by locals, some may have been almost forgotten. You will also find these waterfalls shown in the pages describing their location or surrounding area, elsewhere in the web site.
