Macclesfield Forest 11/1/2015	Ascending Nessit Hill	Ridgegate and Trentabank Reservoirs from Nessit Hill	Shining Tor and Forest Chapel from Nessit Hill
Shutlingsloe from Nessit Hill		Lunch in the porch ...	... at the Forest Chapel
	Sutton Common Mast from the Forest	Apedale: a sunset walk
		Macclesfield Forest on a snowy day, February 2015	Ridgegate Reservoir and the Leather Smithies
Looking west with the Jodrell Bank Telescope	mostly conifers		A glimpse of Teg's Nose
nearing the top of the forest	deciduous trees		Shining Tor (right)
Cat & Fiddle (centre skyline) from Charity Lane	Shutlingsloe	after lunch	near the Standing Stone
Shing Tor in the sun	Apedale	The Memorial Wheel
	Three Shire Heads March 2015	The Cumberland Brook	Shutlingsloe from the Cumberland Brook
Up to Whetstone Ridge		Above Reeve Edge Quarry	Along the Dane
		Shutlingsloe from Cut-Thorne Hill
Cannock Chase March 2015	Adorning the Glacial Boulder	The Stepping Stones on the Sherbrook
		Keele and Silverdale March 2015	Keele Hall
Keele Church	Whixall Moss April 2015	Venturing on the Moss
		The old peat works	Along the old railway track
	The owl is still there!	The Llangollen Canal with an owl on the pole	Lifting bridge
Wildboarclough to Gradbach and Three Shire Heads April 2015	Shutlingsloe	Down to Gradbach	Across the Dane
Two new lambs	Three Shire Heads		Flash to Three Shire Heads April 2015
The Old Methodist Chapel, Flash	Shut;ingsloe	Two more new lambs	The Dane
Three Shire Heads		The Dane Valley	Then the crowds arrived!
	The Pub in Flash	Audlem and the Shropshire Union Canal May 2015	Canal crane
Outside the Shroppie Fly	Up the flight of locks	Bridge 74 ...	... with its rope guard
Cowslips	From Hawksmoor bridge	Highfields Farm	St James Church, Audlem
	Pre-Christian emblem in the porch	The Endon Well Dressing, Cheddleton, Ipstones & Consall Forge May 2015	The Main Well in Endon
			Other contributions
The nursery school effort	A secondary well		The Old Wesleyan Chapel
	1701 cottages	Cheddleton Railway Depot on the Churnet Valley Railway- start of the walk
	piglets	The restored cross	Spiritholes Wood
			Whitehough Dovecote
Whitehough Hall	St Leonnard's, Ipstones		The Chapel House near Belmont Hall
	The Black Lion, Consall Forge	The Caldon Canal	"Thomas Day" on the Churnet Valley Railway; train leaving Consall Forge for Cheddleton
... and returning to Froghall	Steam service		Oakmeadow Ford Lock
	Nearing the end after nearly nine miles	Cheddleton, Coombes Valley, Sharpcliffe Hall & Consall Forge May 2015	Cheddleton Station
Coombes Valley
Inquisitive Horses	Sharpcliffe Hall	Descending the Devil's Staircase to ...	... Consall Forge
Specia Wedding Train leaving Consall Forge Station		Back along the Caldon Canal
The train returning to Froghall		The special running north again through Cheddleton station	The route Phone Screenshot
Audlem, the Shropshire Union & Hankelow June 2015	The Shroppie Fly, Audlem	Canada Geese near the Marina	Distances on the Shropshire Union
The South Cheshire Way	The Weaver Crossing		Hankelow Hall
Corbrook Court
Audlem Baptist Curch	St James the Great	The route Phone Screenshot	Earl's Hill, Pontesbury July 2015
Earl's Hill	Over the Pontesford Brook		Steeply up Pontesford Hill
Earl's Hill: on the windy summit	Annotated screen shot	Tittesworth Reservoir July 2015	Hen Cloud and the Roaches from the visitor's park
Orchids		The Reservoir Dam Wall
The Route phone screen shot	Distance and Time phone screen shot	Macclesfield Forest with Rebecca August 2015	Rebecca and Pat on Nessit Hill
		Shutlingsloe	Forest Chapel
		Oatcakes at the Nice Nosh	The route
	The Wrekin and Iron Bridge with Rebecca August 2015	on the summit (unfortunately blurred!)	The route
The Iron Bridge			Caer Caradoc August 2015
Willstone Hill	Willstone with Caer Caradoc
Amanita Rubiscens ?		Ascending Caer Caradoc	Willstone Hill from Caer Caradoc
On the summit	Practical Oxymoron?	The route
Brown Clee Hill September 2015	Abdon Burf from Abdon Church Hall car park	Clee Burf from the access road	Clee Burf summit Abdon Burf behind
	Abdon Burf from the col	Looking back to Clee Burf	The air crew memorial
Approaching Abdon Burf	Pat on the summit
	The route	The distance	The Stiperstones September 2015
Corndon Hill from the Stiperstones ridge	The Devil's Chair
Looking back along the ridge The Devil's Chair - left	Earl's Hill	The figure of eight route	Distance
Rodney's Pillar Breiddon Hills October 2015	Foggy arrival at the trig. point	The foggy pillar
Clearling a bit		Amanita Rubiscens ?
Still misty on the way down	Distance ~ 6 miles & 1000 ft. including inadvertent diversion!	Ilam & Dovedale October 2015	Thorpe Cloud from the Hall garden
	Castern Hall		At the junction between Hall and Dove Dales
	Ilam Rock	Ilam Church	Autumn from the Hall
The UK Atlas App		The OS app	OS App: the mileage is too long; the time, too short
The Great Orme Llandudno October 2015		Conwy Bay	Fungus
	Maes-y-facre	climbing
The summit (672 ft.)		Not for us! the tram at the middle station	Llandudno stitched picture
The walk (~ 5miles)	Dawn over the Little Orme from our hotel window		Newborough Warren Anglesey October 2015
	Gentian?	The Llyn Peninsular
	The walk	The distance
Cannock Chase November 2015
The Sherbrook		& ~450 feet after lunch
Walk back from Stoke after helping at the RSC Children's event November 2015			Cannock Chase in some drizzle December 2015
well deserved lunch	The Sherbrook river
Apedale; last walk of the year December 31st 2015

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