Brown Hill

Brown Hill is a ruins in Anglezarke, Chorley District, England. Brown Hill is situated nearby to the ruins Old Rachel’s, as well as near Higher House.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Yarrow Reservoir and Rivington Hall Barn.

Yarrow Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: PopUpPirate, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yarrow Reservoir – named after the River Yarrow – is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir.

Rivington Hall Barn

Heritage site

Photo: Ruth Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rivington Hall Barn adjoins Rivington Hall in Rivington, Lancashire, near Chorley and Bolton. The Tithe barn foundation stones support a Medieval cruck construction and possibly date to the between the 9th and 15th centuries. Rivington Hall Barn is situated 1 mile south of Brown Hill.

Noon Hill

Peak

Noon Hill is a hill on the border of the boroughs of Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton, in North West England. It is located on Rivington Moor, Chorley and is 380 metres high.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belmont and Healey Nab.

Belmont

Village

Photo: Gary Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Belmont is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of North Turton, in the unitary authority area of Blackburn with Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is close to Darwen and has around 500 inhabitants. Belmont is situated 2 miles east of Brown Hill.

Healey Nab

Locality

Photo: Karl1587, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Healey Nab or "The Nab" is an area of countryside owned partly by Lancashire County Council containing rolling hills, moorland, woodland, ponds and streams to the east of Chorley, Lancashire, between the M61 and the West Pennine Moors. Healey Nab is situated 2½ miles northwest of Brown Hill.

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 2½ miles southwest of Brown Hill.

Brown Hill

Type: Ruins
Category: building
Location: Anglezarke, Chorley District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.63772° or 53° 38′ 16″ north

Longitude

-2.54815° or 2° 32′ 53″ west

Open location code

9C5VJFQ2+3P

OpenStreetMap ID

way 810036029

OpenStreetMap feature

building=ruins

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