Walks 2009



Hanging Gate to Shutlingsloe and Macclesfield Forest
February 2009


Sutton Common mast
from Piggford Moor

on Shutlingsloe summit

The walk down

Macclesfield Forest

The Hanging Gate
from Fox Bank
March 2009

on Fox Bank

Shutlingsloe from Fox Bank

Sutton Common Mast
the summit

Tegg's Nose and Macclesfield Forest

Spring

Dane Bridge to Wincle Minn

Shutlingsloe from Hawkslee

on Wincle Minn

Sutton Common Mast
from the Minn


Y Garn
March 2009

Devil's Kitchen ...

... the way down

Tryfan and Llyn Idwal

on the summit of Y Garn

Llyn Idwal

Tryfan

Snowdon
through the haze

The Glyders

from Y Garn

Devil's Kitchen Cliffs


Devil's Kitchen

Idwal Slabs

Evening haze

Chaffinch


end of the day

The Breiddens
Middletown Hill & Rodney's Pillar
March 2009

The Wrekin
from Middletown Hill

Brown Clee and Caer Caradoc
from Middletown Hill

The Stiperstones
from Middletown Hill

lunch

Rodney's Pillar



Rodney's Pillar

Middletown Hill
from Rodney's Pillar

Primroses


Peckforton Hills
April 2009

SCR Group



on the route

Wood Sorrell

Dovecote
Peckforton Estate


Dane Valley
with Gurnos & Pat
April 2009

lichen


being served

tea with the Jones

Brown Clee Hill
April 2009

Abdon Burf
the summit

The five springs


on the fort

violets

primroses

Hawkstone Park Follies
April 2008

The White Tower

the stocks

The Monument
Sir Rowland Hill

The Swiss Bridge


Grotto Hill

Swiss Bridge

Gothic Arch

the Cleft

within the Fox's Knob

primroses

Trentham Gardens
May 2009

Grey Lag Geese

Jackdaw








Richrath
near Hellerhof
June 2009


Richrath Church

Witherngsea
near Hull
June 2009


Monument to two churches


The Lighthouse

Hollinsclough
July 2009

Common Orchid

Buxton Quarry Edge



near Harley Grange

Chrome Hill


The Methodist Chapel
Hollinsclough

The Church Hall
tea room

Roach End
July 2009

with Gurnos & Pat

towards Flash


Win Hill
July 2009

up from Hope

Ladybower resevoir

rain shower


The summit from the south

Lose Hill and Mam Tor

looking back to the summit

Winchcombe & Belas Knap
August 2009

Isbourne Manor House
our bed & breakfast

Winchcombe Church

Sudeley House


celebrating three weeks radiotherapy

Belas Knap
a Long Barrow


North (false) entrance

Megalithic stone work

NE chamber

SE chamber

west chamber


scabius

unkown

thistle ...

... with a bee

Charlton Abbots Church

Meadow Brown

Gatekeeper

Youlgrave, Lathkilldale & Bradforddale
August 2009

Primitive Methodist Chapel
Youlgrave

Weslyan Methodist Chapel
Youlgrave

Weslyan Reform Methodist Chapel
Youlgrave

Heron

Youlgrave

Lathkill river

dipper



Lathkilldale


Upper Lathkilldale

Corndon Hill, Powys
September 2009

Mitchell's Fold
Stone Circle



with Corndon Hill


Stiperstones

The summit

a week later
summit of Stapeley Hill
with Corndon Hill


Stiperstones
October 2009

self-inflicted commando course



Devil's Chair

Corndon Hill

Cranberry Rock


Flash & Three Shires Head
November 2009

The Roaches from Dane Head


towards Three Shires head

descending Danebower quarries

crossing the Dane


the Dane

Three Shires Head


sunset

Alpaca

return to Flash

Rudyard Lake
November 2009

Rudyard Lake Railway


upper lake & Sutton Common

looking back

lunch with Pat & Gurnos

birthday special

shunting

re-coupling


under repair

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