page_title: Rivington
section_title: Manor
hierarchical_section_title: Rivington / History / Manor
caption_attribution_description: English: Rivington Hall. This building is just round the corner from the top barn, and looks absolutely superb in the sunshine.
context_page_description: Rivington is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, occupying 2,538 acres. It is about 6 miles southeast of Chorley and about 8 ¹⁄₂ miles northwest of Bolton. Rivington is a rural area consisting primarily of agricultural grazing land, moorland, with hill summits including Rivington Pike and Winter Hill within the West Pennine Moors. The area has a thriving tourist industry centred around reservoirs created to serve Liverpool in the Victorian era and Lever Park created as a public park by William Lever at the turn of the 20th century, with two ancient barns, a replica of Liverpool Castle and open countryside. Rivington and its village had a population of 109 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: The majority share of seven-eights of the manor was originally held by the Pilkington family of Lancashire. This share had reduced to five-eights when they sold Rivington Hall in 1611 to their relations Robert Lever and Thomas Breres. A quarter was owned by the Lathoms and an eighth by the Shaws. In 1765 the Shaws and their relations the Roscoes inherited the one-eight share.
  The Pilkington share had passed through the female line to the Crompton family after the purchase in 1729 by John Andrews of Little Lever of the Breres' share of the manor. The Cromptons remained resident until 1910 as part of an agreement of sale to W. H. Lever in 1900.  Lever sold Rivington Hall and its land to Liverpool Corporation completing in 1905, he and his heirs retain a perpetual interest preventing any buildings being erected except for farms and the supply of water. He retained a residence on the hillside, shooting rights and use of Rivington Hall as a Museum of Lever Park until his death in 1925.
caption: Rivington Hall
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