Top of the Waterfall

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Today I spent another three hours with the dogs in the Terraced Gardens at Rivington, including finding the top of the tiered waterfall I went looking for last Wednesday. It's all pretty overgrown now but it must have looked really good when it was constructed in the 1920's. Previously I had started at the bottom and worked my way upwards, but ran out of sufficient daylight to take pictures of the upper sections. So this time I walked up to close by the Japaneses Gardens, where I believed the stream feeding the waterfall was coming from, and worked my way downhill. This picture shows the uppermost path near the top of the waterfall.

This picture shows the topmost section of the waterfall. Perhaps next time I'm up here I'll take a look at where it actually feeds in from the Japanese Gardens.


Looking down from this bridge gives a view of the second and third bridges. As you can see, it is considerably overgrown these days.


Just at the side of the path near the top of the waterfall you can see what wonderfull use was made of the stonework to give a very natural looking shelter.


This is the view from the second bridge, looking down towards the third bridge, and where I took the last of my pictures on my previous visit. To the left of the waterfall are a set of stone steps set into the hillside, but now fenced off because they are far too unsafe to use. Wind and rain over many years has carved away much of the earthwork underneath the steps, and it may not be too long before they collapse completely.


This is a video taken from the second bridge, begining with the view down towards the third bridge and gradually panning upwards to the top of the waterfall.