Tuesday 25th February 2014
Still in pursuit of Talwin, the first alien... & out walking on my own today!
Parked at the tiny village of Wildboarclough, wedged between one of the wilder stretches of the A54 & Shutlingsloe & Macc Forest to the north... a beautiful spot!
Parked at the tiny village of Wildboarclough, wedged between one of the wilder stretches of the A54 & Shutlingsloe & Macc Forest to the north... a beautiful spot!
The rather dully-named Clough Brook runs through Wildboarclough.... but is probably more likely to have given its name to the village than any wild boar!
Lovely start but now a fierce climb up Berry Bank!
Had fun with a cache beneath a very low-level footbridge on this climb... I usually leave those for Les!
This is a view over to the hills I was walking with Les yesterday!
And there's Shutlingsloe again! Not on today's route but inhabited by another alien!
Passed an Ice Cream Farm (!) before crossing the high open moor & descending to the Youth Hostel, currently being refurbished, at Gradbach
From here I followed the River Dane, County boundary between Cheshire & Staffordshire, through lovely woodland & spectacular gorges back to Danebridge & Wincle!
A quick pint here at 'The Ship' in Wincle before picking up one cache I'd failed to find on the first day & then heading, via country lanes, back to Wildboarclough
A 'Ship' on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border?
Look at the sign!
This is Shackleton's 'Nimrod' on his first, less famous, visit to the Antarctic: Sir Philip Brocklehurst of nearby Swythamley Hall sailed with him as Assistant Geologist!
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