Higher
Hurdsfield/Kerridge - Part II
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It's a tough life rambling
in this heat, a little snooze until the pub opens will be the
ticket!
Looking across the Dean
Valley towards Pott Shrigley with Nab Head the hill opposite beyond
the top end of Bollington just visible.
Turning for home now, coming
down off the ridge a peer over the edge into Endon Quarry. Kerridge
quarries were the local source for roofing flagstones before improved
transportation in the 19th century made the import of roofing
slate from Wales and elsewhere a viable lighter-weight alternative.
At the foot of the drive
down to Endon is Quarry Bank built end-on to the old face of a
quarry ...
....
A pair of knowing eyes were
regarding me as I puzzled over the best way to capture the sun-dial
and what the meaning was of its legend. I think, with my non-existent
grasp of Latin, it is something like 'To give life (existence,
visibility?) to the hours (time)' but I'm willing to be corrected.
The cobbles and cottages
of Kerridge on the road to Endon all built with the local stone.
Roses in the Kerridge War
Memorial garden on Oak Lane.
Clarke Lane Farm.
Down again by the canal,
against the backdrop of Kerridge Hill, this young man is flying
his yellow model helicopter and doing it very well.
....
White flowers of Meadowsweet
and blue Vetch, white umbril of Cow-parsley and Rose Bay Willowherb,
pretty and colourful contrasts along the canal bank.
The last bridge before home,
under the B5470 road to Rainow.
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