![](thumb_2015_01_044t_Macclesfield.jpg) Macclesfield Forest 11/1/2015 |
![](thumb_2015_01_045.jpg) Ascending Nessit Hill |
![](thumb_2015_01_049.jpg) Ridgegate and Trentabank Reservoirs from Nessit Hill |
![](thumb_2015_01_051.jpg) Shining Tor and Forest Chapel from Nessit Hill |
![](thumb_2015_01_053.jpg) Shutlingsloe from Nessit Hill |
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![](thumb_2015_01_061.jpg) Lunch in the porch ... |
![](thumb_2015_01_063.jpg) ... at the Forest Chapel |
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![](thumb_2015_01_071.jpg) Sutton Common Mast from the Forest |
![](thumb_2015_01_155t_Apedale.jpg) Apedale: a sunset walk |
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![](thumb_2015_02_224t_Macclesfield_snow.jpg) Macclesfield Forest on a snowy day, February 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_02_225.jpg) Ridgegate Reservoir and the Leather Smithies |
![](thumb_2015_02_227.jpg) Looking west with the Jodrell Bank Telescope |
![](thumb_2015_02_235.jpg) mostly conifers |
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![](thumb_2015_02_239.jpg) A glimpse of Teg's Nose |
![](thumb_2015_02_241.jpg) nearing the top of the forest |
![](thumb_2015_02_245.jpg) deciduous trees |
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![](thumb_2015_02_251.jpg) Shining Tor (right) |
![](thumb_2015_02_253.jpg) Cat & Fiddle (centre skyline) from Charity Lane |
![](thumb_2015_02_257.jpg) Shutlingsloe |
![](thumb_2015_02_259.jpg) after lunch |
![](thumb_2015_02_261.jpg) near the Standing Stone |
![](thumb_2015_02_265.jpg) Shing Tor in the sun |
![](thumb_2015_02_270t_Apedale%20.jpg) Apedale |
![](thumb_2015_02_271.jpg) The Memorial Wheel |
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![](thumb_2015_03_010t_Three_Shires_Head.jpg) Three Shire Heads March 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_03_013.jpg) The Cumberland Brook |
![](thumb_2015_03_015_orig.jpg) Shutlingsloe from the Cumberland Brook |
![](thumb_2015_03_017.jpg) Up to Whetstone Ridge |
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![](thumb_2015_03_029.jpg) Above Reeve Edge Quarry |
![](thumb_2015_03_037.jpg) Along the Dane |
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![](thumb_2015_03_063.jpg) Shutlingsloe from Cut-Thorne Hill |
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![](thumb_2015_03_068t_Cannock_Chase.jpg) Cannock Chase March 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_03_069.jpg) Adorning the Glacial Boulder |
![](thumb_2015_03_075.jpg) The Stepping Stones on the Sherbrook |
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![](thumb_2015_03_194t_Keele.jpg) Keele and Silverdale March 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_03_195.jpg) Keele Hall |
![](thumb_2015_03_197.jpg) Keele Church |
![](thumb_2015_04_010t_Whixall.jpg) Whixall Moss April 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_04_013.jpg) Venturing on the Moss |
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![](thumb_2015_04_023.jpg) The old peat works |
![](thumb_2015_04_027.jpg) Along the old railway track |
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![](thumb_2015_04_031.jpg) The owl is still there! |
![](thumb_2015_04_033.jpg) The Llangollen Canal with an owl on the pole |
![](thumb_2015_04_035.jpg) Lifting bridge |
![](thumb_2015_04_036t_Gradbach.jpg) Wildboarclough to Gradbach and Three Shire Heads April 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_04_039.jpg) Shutlingsloe |
![](thumb_2015_04_045.jpg) Down to Gradbach |
![](thumb_2015_04_051.jpg) Across the Dane |
![](thumb_2015_04_055.jpg) Two new lambs |
![](thumb_2015_04_059.jpg) Three Shire Heads |
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![](thumb_2015_04_078t_Flash.jpg) Flash to Three Shire Heads April 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_04_079.jpg) The Old Methodist Chapel, Flash |
![](thumb_2015_04_081.jpg) Shut;ingsloe |
![](thumb_2015_04_085.jpg) Two more new lambs |
![](thumb_2015_04_087.jpg) The Dane |
![](thumb_2015_04_089.jpg) Three Shire Heads |
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![](thumb_2015_04_093.jpg) The Dane Valley |
![](thumb_2015_04_095.jpg) Then the crowds arrived! |
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![](thumb_2015_04_103.jpg) The Pub in Flash |
![](thumb_2015_05_201t_Audlem.jpg) Audlem and the Shropshire Union Canal May 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_05_202.jpg) Canal crane |
![](thumb_2015_05_204.jpg) Outside the Shroppie Fly |
![](thumb_2015_05_206.jpg) Up the flight of locks |
![](thumb_2015_05_208.jpg) Bridge 74 ... |
![](thumb_2015_05_210.jpg) ... with its rope guard |
![](thumb_2015_05_214.jpg) Cowslips |
![](thumb_2015_05_216.jpg) From Hawksmoor bridge |
![](thumb_2015_05_218.jpg) Highfields Farm |
![](thumb_2015_05_224.jpg) St James Church, Audlem |
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![](thumb_2015_05_232.jpg) Pre-Christian emblem in the porch |
![](thumb_2015_05_516t_Cheddleton.jpg) The Endon Well Dressing, Cheddleton, Ipstones & Consall Forge May 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_05_523.jpg) The Main Well in Endon |
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![](thumb_2015_05_532.jpg) Other contributions |
![](thumb_2015_05_532b.jpg) The nursery school effort |
![](thumb_2015_05_532c.jpg) A secondary well |
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![](thumb_2015_05_533.jpg) The Old Wesleyan Chapel |
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![](thumb_2015_05_543.jpg) 1701 cottages |
![](thumb_2015_05_551.jpg) Cheddleton Railway Depot on the Churnet Valley Railway- start of the walk |
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![](thumb_2015_05_557.jpg) piglets |
![](thumb_2015_05_559.jpg) The restored cross |
![](thumb_2015_05_563.jpg) Spiritholes Wood |
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![](thumb_2015_05_579.jpg) Whitehough Dovecote |
![](thumb_2015_05_581.jpg) Whitehough Hall |
![](thumb_2015_05_584.jpg) St Leonnard's, Ipstones |
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![](thumb_2015_05_592.jpg) The Chapel House near Belmont Hall |
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![](thumb_2015_05_600.jpg) The Black Lion, Consall Forge |
![](thumb_2015_05_603.jpg) The Caldon Canal |
![](thumb_2015_05_604.jpg) "Thomas Day" on the Churnet Valley Railway; train leaving Consall Forge for Cheddleton |
![](thumb_2015_05_607.jpg) ... and returning to Froghall |
![](thumb_2015_05_613.jpg) Steam service |
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![](thumb_2015_05_631.jpg) Oakmeadow Ford Lock |
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![](thumb_2015_05_633a.jpg) Nearing the end after nearly nine miles |
![](thumb_2015_05_652_Consall_Forge.jpg) Cheddleton, Coombes Valley, Sharpcliffe Hall & Consall Forge May 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_05_653.jpg) Cheddleton Station |
![](thumb_2015_05_657.jpg) Coombes Valley |
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![](thumb_2015_05_671.jpg) Inquisitive Horses |
![](thumb_2015_05_675.jpg) Sharpcliffe Hall |
![](thumb_2015_05_681.jpg) Descending the Devil's Staircase to ... |
![](thumb_2015_05_683.jpg) ... Consall Forge |
![](thumb_2015_05_689.jpg) Specia Wedding Train leaving Consall Forge Station |
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![](thumb_2015_05_695.jpg) Back along the Caldon Canal |
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![](thumb_2015_05_701.jpg) The train returning to Froghall |
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![](thumb_2015_05_709.jpg) The special running north again through Cheddleton station |
![](thumb_2015_05_715.jpg) The route Phone Screenshot |
![](thumb_2015_06_052t_Audlem_&_Hankelow.jpg) Audlem, the Shropshire Union & Hankelow June 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_06_053.jpg) The Shroppie Fly, Audlem |
![](thumb_2015_06_057.jpg) Canada Geese near the Marina |
![](thumb_2015_06_059.jpg) Distances on the Shropshire Union |
![](thumb_2015_06_061.jpg) The South Cheshire Way |
![](thumb_2015_06_065.jpg) The Weaver Crossing |
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![](thumb_2015_06_073.jpg) Hankelow Hall |
![](thumb_2015_06_079.jpg) Corbrook Court |
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![](thumb_2015_06_095.jpg) Audlem Baptist Curch |
![](thumb_2015_06_097.jpg) St James the Great |
![](thumb_2015_06_103.jpg) The route Phone Screenshot |
![](thumb_2015_07_060_Earls_Hill.jpg) Earl's Hill, Pontesbury July 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_07_061.jpg) Earl's Hill |
![](thumb_2015_07_063.jpg) Over the Pontesford Brook |
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![](thumb_2015_07_073.jpg) Steeply up Pontesford Hill |
![](thumb_2015_07_077.jpg) Earl's Hill: on the windy summit |
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![](thumb_2015_07_100t_Tittesworth.jpg) Tittesworth Reservoir July 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_07_101.jpg) Hen Cloud and the Roaches from the visitor's park |
![](thumb_2015_07_103.jpg) Orchids |
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![](thumb_2015_07_111.jpg) The Reservoir Dam Wall |
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![](thumb_2015_07_115.jpg) The Route phone screen shot |
![](thumb_2015_07_119.jpg) Distance and Time phone screen shot |
![](thumb_2015_08_010t_Macclesfield.jpg) Macclesfield Forest with Rebecca August 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_08_015.jpg) Rebecca and Pat on Nessit Hill |
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![](thumb_2015_08_025.jpg) Shutlingsloe |
![](thumb_2015_08_027.jpg) Forest Chapel |
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![](thumb_2015_08_034.jpg) Oatcakes at the Nice Nosh |
![](thumb_2015_08_035.jpg) The route |
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![](thumb_2015_08_100t_Wrekin.jpg) The Wrekin and Iron Bridge with Rebecca August 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_08_101.jpg) on the summit (unfortunately blurred!) |
![](thumb_2015_08_111.jpg) The route |
![](thumb_2015_08_115.jpg) The Iron Bridge |
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![](thumb_2015_08_224t_Caer_Caradoc.jpg) Caer Caradoc August 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_08_229.jpg) Willstone Hill |
![](thumb_2015_08_233.jpg) Willstone with Caer Caradoc |
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![](thumb_2015_08_243.jpg) Amanita Rubiscens ? |
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![](thumb_2015_08_247.jpg) Ascending Caer Caradoc |
![](thumb_2015_08_249.jpg) Willstone Hill from Caer Caradoc |
![](thumb_2015_08_251.jpg) On the summit |
![](thumb_2015_08_254.jpg) Practical Oxymoron? |
![](thumb_2015_08_255.jpg) The route |
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![](thumb_2015_09_306t_Brown_Clee_Hill.jpg) Brown Clee Hill September 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_09_307.jpg) Abdon Burf from Abdon Church Hall car park |
![](thumb_2015_09_311.jpg) Clee Burf from the access road |
![](thumb_2015_09_313.jpg) Clee Burf summit Abdon Burf behind |
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![](thumb_2015_09_327.jpg) Abdon Burf from the col |
![](thumb_2015_09_329.jpg) Looking back to Clee Burf |
![](thumb_2015_09_331.jpg) The air crew memorial |
![](thumb_2015_09_335.jpg) Approaching Abdon Burf |
![](thumb_2015_09_339.jpg) Pat on the summit |
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![](thumb_2015_09_349.jpg) The route |
![](thumb_2015_09_353.jpg) The distance |
![](thumb_2015_09_478t_Stiperstones.jpg) The Stiperstones September 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_09_479.jpg) Corndon Hill from the Stiperstones ridge |
![](thumb_2015_09_481.jpg) The Devil's Chair |
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![](thumb_2015_09_489.jpg) Looking back along the ridge The Devil's Chair - left |
![](thumb_2015_09_491.jpg) Earl's Hill |
![](thumb_2015_09_493.jpg) The figure of eight route |
![](thumb_2015_09_497.jpg) Distance |
![](thumb_2015_10_000_Rodneys_Pillar.jpg) Rodney's Pillar Breiddon Hills October 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_10_007.jpg) Foggy arrival at the trig. point |
![](thumb_2015_10_008.jpg) The foggy pillar |
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![](thumb_2015_10_017.jpg) Clearling a bit |
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![](thumb_2015_10_023.jpg) Amanita Rubiscens ? |
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![](thumb_2015_10_029.jpg) Still misty on the way down |
![](thumb_2015_10_031.jpg) Distance ~ 6 miles & 1000 ft. including inadvertent diversion! |
![](thumb_2015_10_200t_Ilam_Dovedale.jpg) Ilam & Dovedale October 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_10_205.jpg) Thorpe Cloud from the Hall garden |
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![](thumb_2015_10_209.jpg) Castern Hall |
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![](thumb_2015_10_213.jpg) At the junction between Hall and Dove Dales |
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![](thumb_2015_10_215.jpg) Ilam Rock |
![](thumb_2015_10_219.jpg) Ilam Church |
![](thumb_2015_10_221.jpg) Autumn from the Hall |
![](thumb_2015_10_223.jpg) The UK Atlas App |
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![](thumb_2015_10_227.jpg) The OS app |
![](thumb_2015_10_229.jpg) OS App: the mileage is too long; the time, too short |
![](thumb_2015_10_230t_Llandudno.jpg) The Great Orme Llandudno October 2015 |
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![](thumb_2015_10_233.jpg) Conwy Bay |
![](thumb_2015_10_234.jpg) Fungus |
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![](thumb_2015_10_239.jpg) Maes-y-facre |
![](thumb_2015_10_243.jpg) climbing |
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![](thumb_2015_10_249.jpg) The summit (672 ft.) |
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![](thumb_2015_10_255.jpg) Not for us! the tram at the middle station |
![](thumb_2015_10_258.jpg) Llandudno stitched picture |
![](thumb_2015_10_266.jpg) The walk (~ 5miles) |
![](thumb_2015_10_267a.jpg) Dawn over the Little Orme from our hotel window |
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![](thumb_2015_10_268t_Anglesey.jpg) Newborough Warren Anglesey October 2015 |
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![](thumb_2015_10_271.jpg) Gentian? |
![](thumb_2015_10_273.jpg) The Llyn Peninsular |
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![](thumb_2015_10_287.jpg) The walk |
![](thumb_2015_10_289.jpg) The distance |
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![](thumb_2015_10_310t_Cannock_Chase.jpg) Cannock Chase November 2015 |
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![](thumb_2015_10_317.jpg) The Sherbrook |
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![](thumb_2015_10_321.jpg) & ~450 feet after lunch |
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![](thumb_2015_11_010.jpg) Walk back from Stoke after helping at the RSC Children's event November 2015 |
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![](thumb_2015_12_014.jpg) Cannock Chase in some drizzle December 2015 |
![](thumb_2015_12_017.jpg) well deserved lunch |
![](thumb_2015_12_019.jpg) The Sherbrook river |
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![](thumb_2015_12_262t_Apedale.jpg) Apedale; last walk of the year December 31st 2015 |
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