Tegg's
Nose
This is the 'season of mists
and mellow fruitfulness' ...
....
... when nature provides
ephemeral fungal 'flowers' in my garden ...
....
... and a low angled light
to assist this aspirant photographer.
Maybe, in this light, there
are interesting pictures elsewhere for me to attempt? Let's try
to capture something of a local feature that I have found difficult
to picture adequately: Tegg's Nose.
A teg's nose may be here
pictured, as well as Tegg's Nose, the grey/brown promontory on
the left skyline. I don't know whether this local is a wether
or a teg. A teg being a young castrated ram and a wether a second
year ewe. I don't usually need to know the sex of sheep and unless
I can see 'dangly bits', I confess, they all look the same to
me.
Tegg's Nose shows from here,
Meg Lane/Ridgehill beyond Langley village, the spoil heap slope
of raw stone waste from the now-defunct quarry sited on its ridge.
I have no idea when it was named for a sheep's snout but they
are such unprepossessing things it doesn't really matter.
From further up Meg Lane
the view across Macc Forest.
And a closer look up to
the southern side of the Forest.
Tegg's Nose is designated
a Country Park and sits outside the arbitrary boundary of the
Peak District National Park which runs along the line of the lane
running through the fields on the right of the valley.
At the head of that valley,
on the Buxton Road, is the hamlet of Walker Barn that used to
boast a popular hostelry - The Setter Dog, now closed and the
building reverted to a dwelling. Never having been a dwelling
to be reverted to, the other notable building there is ...
... the tiny Wesleyan Methodist
Chapel, 'Erected by Voluntary Contributions AD 1853' as the plaque
on the gable wall states. John Wesley had been a frequent visitor
to the town and preached often in Macclesfield. I believe, unlike
The Setter Dog, that the building is still in use as a chapel.
Between Walker Barn and
the ridge end is the Information Centre with car park, toilets
and warden ...
... also picnic facilities
and views E across Macc Forest to Shutlingsloe, beyond.
Looking NW over the Cheshire
Plain, covered all day today in a light mist, the plumes of steam
from the cooling towers at Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, 30 miles
away, stand out in the afternoon sun.
Looking W over Macclesfield
town, rising through the carpet of mist it is there and we can
say the Cheshire mantra - "There's Jodrell Bank".
Back in the Park the weak
sun threatens again to emerge from behind the almost immobile
bank of cloud, but it will be another hour before it spectacularly
breaks out.
From between the heathered
spoil heaps in the Park proper, a view back to Walker Barn with
the whitewashed walls of the Setter Dog building standing out.
Here might be a good place
to wait for the sunset: looking S to Mow Cop, the far peak.
But, no. I decided to go
to the end of the ridge, the tip of the Nose, with an uninterrupted
view S over Tegsnose and Bottoms Reservoirs to Sutton Common ...
... and SE over Ridgegate
Reservoir and Macc Forest.
But look, here comes the
sun ...
... it's looking good over
Sutton Common ...
... but will you look at
that sunset!
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