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Winter Hill Walk: Bolton celebrates 125th anniversary of successful trespass theboltonnews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboltonnews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Call for brass band to lead walkers on 125th anniversary of the Battle for Winter Hill theboltonnews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboltonnews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Westhoughton’s Maxine Peake is getting behind plans to celebrate the Battle of Winter Hill in 1896. In September that year, thousands of people from Halliwell and surrounding areas, took part in huge protests in defiance of wealthy landowner, Colonel Richard Ainsworth, after he blocked off public access to the moors to host private grouse shooting parties with his friends. There was widespread anger when public access to the moors was blocked. On September 6, thousands walked from the bottom of Halliwell Road, up Smithills Dean Roan and then via Coal Pit Road onto the moors, defying Col Ainsworth, demanding their right to access the Winter Hill moors. ....
ACTOR Maxine Peake urged people to continue fighting for their rights of way as she joined the launch event celebrating the 125th anniversary of Bolton s fight to walk up Winter Hill. Maxine, who was born in Westhoughton, joined an open meeting via Zoom to hear more about the historical event and how the fight to enjoy the open countryside continues to this day with warnings on how rights to enjoy the open countryside are hugely curtailed. Up to 10,000 people marched in the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896 to reclaim their right of way, after landowner Colonel Richard Ainsworth of Smithills Hall closed off a well-used track that crossed his land on the slopes of Winter Hill, so he could pursue his love of game shooting uninterrupted. ....