Rivington Water Treatment Works

Rivington Water Treatment Works is a water treatment plant in Rivington, Lancashire, England. It is located below the Lower Rivington Reservoir, the last in the Rivington chain of reservoirs.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rivington Castle and Rivington and Blackrod High School.

Rivington Castle

Ruins

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Rivington Castle is a ruins, which is situated 2,700 feet north of Rivington Water Treatment Works.

Rivington and Blackrod High School

School

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Rivington and Blackrod High School in the North West region of England is a Leverhulme Trust multi-academy comprehensive school. Alongside Harper Green School, it operates as a Church of England teaching environment with a sixth form school. Rivington and Blackrod High School is situated 2,400 feet northeast of Rivington Water Treatment Works.

Lower Rivington Reservoir

Reservoir

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Lower Rivington Reservoir is at the end of the Rivington chain of reservoirs in Lancashire, England, with Upper Rivington Reservoir to the north, and Rivington Water Treatment Works to the south.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Horwich and Blackrod.

Horwich

Town

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Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester in northwest England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre, with an industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton and railways.

Blackrod

Village

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Blackrod is a town and civil parish situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Nestled in the historic county of Lancashire, Blackrod is approximately four miles northeast of Wigan and 6+1⁄2 miles west of Bolton.

Adlington

Village

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Adlington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, near the West Pennine Moors. It is 3 miles south of Chorley. It became a separate parish in 1842 then grew into a township around the textile and coal mining industries until these closed in the 1960s. Adlington is situated 2 miles northwest of Rivington Water Treatment Works.

Rivington Water Treatment Works

Type: Waterworks
Description: water treatment plant in Rivington, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Category: industry
Location: Horwich, Bolton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.60557° or 53° 36′ 20″ north

Longitude

-2.55957° or 2° 33′ 34″ west

Operator

United Utilities

Open location code

9C5VJC4R+65

OpenStreetMap ID

way 32949254

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=water_works

Wikidata ID

Q7338897

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