Walks 2008


Berry Head
New Year's Day

with Melanie & Sappho



Berry Head lighthouse


view towards Exmouth

below Berry Head



Sappho





nesting gulls


Macclesfield Forest
& Tegg's Nose
January 2008

Forest Chapel


Cat & Fiddle

ascending from
Forest Chapel

Tegg's Nose
from Walker Barn

Shuttlingsloe
from Tegg's Nose

Quarrying machinery
Tegg's Nose

Red-throated diver

Sutton Common Mast


Wildboarclough
January 2008

Cumberland Brook

Shutlingsloe

from the Cat & Fiddle Moor

Danebower Hollow &
the Roaches

Approaching Orchard Farm

Three Shires Head

St Saviour's Church
Wildboarclough

Shining Tor
February 2008

A537 from Macclesfield

Shutlingsloe & Sutton Common

Shutlingsloe

path to Pym Chair

after lunch
near Errwood Hall



the Shrine

Pym Chair

Shutlingsloe over Shining Tor

from Cats Tor


on Shining Tor

March 2008

Flash Church

Llamas ...

...sheltering from the wind


out in the wind

the Dane

Three Shires Head

Gradbach, March 2008

Gradbach Hill

Dane Valley
looking West

Black Brook
looking South

Black Brook
from Gib Tor

Gib Tor

lichen


Dane Bridge, Roach End
Hanging Rock
March 2008

Shutlingsloe
from the Dane Valley

lunch
with Pat & Gurnos Jones


A very windy
Roach end

Shutlingsloe

Hangingstone Edge

Pat, Gurnos & Pat
on the Hanging Stone


The Hanging Stone

Dane Bridge

around Wincle
April 2008

above Dane Bridge
looking North

Wincle Church

the Roaches

Downs Banks
Barlaston, June

Hawthorn




SCR Walk
June

on the Stiperstones

SCR Group


Devil's Chair


Cheshire Canals
July

Boden Hall

on the
South Cheshire Way

Little Moreton Hall


rural pastimes

Ramsdell Hall

Canada Geese

Heron

Macclesfield Canal

Mow Cop


Combs Valley
July

Train from Buxton

up to
Combs Edge Fort

Foxgloves

August

Brassington


Carsington Water




73 today!

Dane Bridge
to Minn Edge
August

Shutlingsloe

Greasley Hollow

Telecommunications Tower
Sutton Common

Shutlingsloe

The Roaches
and Hen Cloud

September

Sutton Common ....

...telecommunications mast

Shutlingsloe

on the ridge


The Hanging Gate
start and finish

Around the Mermaid
October 2008

The Mermaid
with the beacon

one of the easier crossings


from below

Ramshaw Rocks

the range boundary

back to the Mermaid ...

... from Boarsgrove

The Mermaid herself


Moel Famau
with the SCR
October 2008
Route Map

The start from
We Three Loggerheads


the final ascent

in the wind

the summit

showers and sun

the summit party

with Rick Marshall & Stephen Clifford

Three Christmas walks
iin Macclesfield Forest

Shining Tor
from the Standing Stone

Cat & fiddle
from the Standing Stone

Tegg's Nose
from the Standing Stone

Forest Chapel

Sutton Common
from Charity Lane

Shutlingsloe
from Charity Lane

Looking South
from Charity Lane

Christmas Tree
courtesy of Northenden Walkers

Tegg's Nose
from Hacked Way Lane

Shutlingsloe
from Tegg's Nose

Tegg's Nose summit

Gurnos, Pat & Owen Jones

Tegg's Nose Quarry



the Forest & Shutlingsloe
from Pedlar's Way

with the Jones

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