Great Hill is a hill in
Lancashire, England, on
Anglezarke Moor, between the towns of
Chorley
Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came pr ...
and
Darwen. It is part of the
West Pennine Moors and lies approximately 3 miles north of
Winter Hill, which is the highest point in the area at 456 m (1,498 ft).
The summit at 381 m (1,252 ft) is only slightly higher than the surrounding moorland, but provides excellent views in all directions particularly to the north and west. Paths head west towards
White Coppice via the ruins of Drinkwaters, south to Winter Hill via Hordern Stoops, and east to
Darwen Tower
The octagonal Jubilee Tower (officially called Darwen Tower) at grid reference SD678215 on Darwen Hill overlooking the town of Darwen in Lancashire, England, was completed in 1898 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and also to celeb ...
via ''Pimm's'', ''Picadilly'' and the ruins of
Hollinshead Hall
Hollinshead Hall was a manor house close to the village of Tockholes, Lancashire. It is unclear whether the hall was originally the manor house of Tockholes, or if Hollinshead was indeed a manor in its own right alongside Tockholes and Livese ...
.
The sources of
Black Brook and the
River Roddlesworth are on the slopes of the hill.
The traditional walker's
cairn
A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ).
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehis ...
has been replaced by a stone bench in the shape of a cross, which offers shelter from the wind.
{{Blackburn with Darwen geography
Mountains and hills of Lancashire
Geography of Chorley
Geography of Blackburn with Darwen
Hills of the West Pennine Moors