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My England


19 Feb 2014

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A very cold winter’s day.

21 Feb 2014

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Tree surgeon

And the name if his business (Monkey business)

30 Jan 2014

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Will it ever stop raining

14 Jan 2014

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What ewe looking at

14 Jan 2014

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26 Dec 2013

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Mow Cop Castle

Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop, near Harriseahead in the county of Staffordshire, England. Traces of a prehistoric camp have been found here, but in 1754, Randle Wilbraham of nearby Rode Hall built an elaborate summerhouse looking like a medieval fortress and round tower. The Castle was given to the National Trust in 1937. The same year over ten thousand Methodists met on the hill to commemorate the first Primitive Methodist Camp Meeting there. The area around the castle was nationally famous for the quarrying of high-quality millstones ('querns') for use in water mills. Excavations at Mow Cop have found querns dating back to the Iron Age. Though visitors were originally allowed inside the folly the area surrounding it has been fenced off due to an instance of suicide off the cliff edge. On the turn of the millennium in the year 2000 a large fire was lit beside the folly as part of a network of communicating fires across the country.

08 Dec 2013

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Red sky at night

26 Nov 2013

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A few things on our local pubs menu

29 Nov 2013

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It’s Saint Andrews day today

Jet trails forming the flag of Saint Andrew
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