Terraced Gardens, Rivington

Terraced Gardens, Rivington
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Terraced Gardens, Rivington is located in Lancashire
Terraced Gardens, Rivington
Location in Lancashire
LocationChorley
Coordinates53°37′11″N 2°32′53″W / 53.6197°N 2.5480°W / 53.6197; -2.5480
Created1900
Operated byRivington Heritage Trust on behalf of UU
DesignationGrade II
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Terraced Gardens of Rivington (Leverhulmes Former Gardens) is a landscaped woodland on the hillside of Rivington Pike, in Rivington Parish in the Chorley Borough of Lancashire, England, originally designed as a Garden by T.H. Mawson and built as curtilage to a home of the soap magnate Viscount Leverhulme; as such, the area is not part of Lever Park. The gardens contains and abuts the SSSI of the West Pennine Moors. Today the former gardens are Grade II listed and contain eleven Grade II structures. The original design had three elements — the upper part being in the romanesque architectural style, the lower section, known as the Ravine, was a woodland with a man-made stream, and a Japanese-style garden, with a man-made pond constructed of Pulmonite which remains today. The gardens are leased to Rivington Heritage Trust by United Utilities and are undergoing restoration and preservation.

Rivington Gardens design
Japanese Lake 1925
Leverhulmes Bungalow 1925