Liverpool is supposed to be built on seven hills,probably more, but just need the main ones. Can anyone help???:gossip:
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Liverpool is supposed to be built on seven hills,probably more, but just need the main ones. Can anyone help???:gossip:
Olive Mount
Everton Brow
Camp Hill
Brownlow Hill, Sleepers Hill, Mount Pleasant
Great going guys, TA. but which is 'Camp hill?
You've got:
1 - Woolton Ridge which gives you Childwall Valley
2 - Olive Mount
3 - Mossley Hill
4 - High Park
5 - Everton Valley
6 - Everton Brow which leads to Everton Valley
They seem to be the main ones.
Camp Hill is in Woolton - comes from the Saxon settlement there though there's no trace of it now - the place is excellent for sledging in the winter when we get some snow and you're a big kid!
A rare pic showing how steep Everton Brow is.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/stmarys.jpg
Another unusual shot showing off the hill. The two cathedrals look they've been copied and pasted on to the pic but I can assure you they weren't:Colorz_Grey_PDT_24: :)
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/hill.jpg
Looking towards Everton Brow. Taken last week. St George's Church (The "Cast Iron Church"), Heyworth Street is visible in the far left, top of the pic.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/hill2.jpg
What about Walton On The Hill.
.... heading from Rice lane - city bound - under the flyover .. still going up hill onto County rd (Walton church to the left) .. down County rd towards Walton rd and Everton Valley.
Sometimes it's not realised that there is an incline there. The flyover hides the hill there.
It looks like Liverpool has more than 7 hills.
Isn't it the Seven Hills of Rome?
Wonderful pics as usual Scouserdave!
Camp Hill dates back further than Saxon times to the Iron Age, and appears to have been a hill fort similar to others around the British Isles, although I don't believe this has been confirmed by archaeology. If it was such a fort, it thus would have been contemporary with the Helsby Hill Iron Age fort across the Mersey.
Chris
Edge Hill, Low Hill.
Bernard Hill.
Alright Dave. I PM'd you my new number. Didn't have any missed calls when I checked after footy. I'll send it to you again. Carefully this time... :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
This hilly city is a nightmare for bikes going up a hill.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:
I love cycling. Once done Islington to the Pier Head in 5 minutes. Don't recall the time on the return trip. All I remember is the ambulance lads administering me oxygen when I passed out and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay giving me the ****ing kiss of life. Tenzing had luvly lips, btw.
Earl Road is more evil than Islington to ride or like the ****e end of Smithdown Road.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:
Yeah, it's steeper than Islington, I only ride through Islington though to get to the gym on Salisbury Road though.
One road by Everton Park Sports centre was the steepest Road I rode down and I forgot to fix my brakes and I was using my feet to stop the bike! Could of crashed into a car on the road!:eek:
I crashed into the steps by the Anglican Cathedral at night just outside it on that steep hill once too but luckily, my feet managed to slow it down enough to hit one of my bones so it was nothing.
Hurt my feet doing that and absorbing the impact.
Fixed my brakes now though, pain in the arse bike. :mad:
Change it to Red.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Getting back to the actual hills again, nobody seems to have come up with a definitive or "official" list, just people kindly offering their own thoughts.
Starting with NineSisters list, I don't think we can just go by streets which have something hilly in their name.
1 - Woolton Ridge Camp Hill is in Woolton
2 - Olive Mount but is this the same Hill as Edge Hill and Old Swan.
which then continues to the top of Upper Parly.
3 - Mossley Hill - agreed, the church being on a definite summit,.
4 - High Park in the Dingle, plenty of slopoimng streets down there, but there is the point they all slope up to?
5 - Everton Brow which leads to Everton Valley, and then along Everton Ridge
6 - Mount Vernon which seems to be the peak of Mount pleasant which goes up again via Oxford Street.,
Breeze Hill leads up to where? Sleepers Hill, similar.
On a related point, Ken Pye in his excellent book definitely refers to the Seven Hills on which Liverpool is built. I would love to contact him and ask him about his sources, and indeed his list. Anyone got any contacts?
Surely, it's the Seven Hills of Rome, not Liverpool.
Liverpool has two ridges which are probably more noticeable than its hills.
The answer will be in a contour map of the area.