What is recorded here
The Winter Hill Air Disaster occurred on 23 December 1958 when a British European Airways flight crashed into Winter Hill near Chorley, killing all 61 people on board. The memorial commemorates the victims and is significant as one of the worst peacetime air disasters in British aviation history.
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Places near here
Winter HillMountain / peak · 391 yd
Round cairn on Winter HillScheduled monument · 799 yd
Waterfall at BelmontWaterfall · 1320 yd
Waterfall, Ward's Reservoir BelmontWaterfall · 1377 yd
Hill Top WoodWood · 1462 yd
Hordern Stoops Boundary StoneMonument or public art · 1544 yd
Crooked Edge HillMountain / peak · 1697 yd
Church of St PeterListed building · 1745 yd
Higher Hempshaw's RuinsRuins · 1.4 mi
WilderswoodWood · 1.5 mi
The Japanese GardenVisitor information · 1.6 mi
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Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0