Winter Hill

Winter Hill may refer to:

  • Winter Hill (North West England), on the border between Greater Manchester and Lancashire, England.
    • Winter Hill transmitting station located within the Borough of Chorley on the summit of Winter Hill.
    • Winter Hill (air disaster), a plane crash at Winter Hill.
  • Winter Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts.
  • Winter Hill (song) by Doves, and the second single from their 2009 album Kingdom of Rust.
  • Winterhill, a district of Milton Keynes, England
  • Winterhill School, a comprehensive school situated in Kimberworth, South Yorkshire, England.
  • Winter Hill Gang, a crime gang based in Boston, US, in the late 20th century.

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or hill:

    “The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “John Anderson my jo, John,
    We clamb the hill the gither;
    And mony a canty day, John,
    We’ve had wi’ ane anither:
    Now we maun totter down, John,
    And hand in hand we’ll go;
    And sleep the gither at the foot,
    John Anderson my Jo.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)