I think that when the elements are against one, and the going difficult, Charlie is inclined to exaggerate the distances involved.  Interestingly he speaks of reaching the ‘main road’ which with my detailed knowledge of the area (living just two miles away) could only have been Georges Lane, which in those days would have been cobbled, being part of the Leverhulme estate.

The Bungalow was a wooden construction burnt down in 1913 by Edith Rigby, a militant suffragette, the wreckage then being replaced by a stone building, but by the date of Charlie’s ‘walk in the snow’ Lord Leverhulmes days were numbered as he died in 1925.  After standing empty for many years the bungalow was demolished in 1947.

Incidentally, the wonderful – but overgrown – Japanese gardens at Rivington, left by Lord Leverhulme – he created them – have just received a £3.4 million Lottery Heritage grant to make them more accessible.