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/ Three Shires Head, Part II
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Three Shires Head Lido!
But what did I expect on such a fine day?
The tributary stream from
the Derbyshire/Staffordshire side.
The OS map notes Panniers
Pool, but it is not clear if this is the one or the one on the
tributary stream. Some association with pack-horse transport,
though, preceding the cart/carriage roads and bridges.
Even on such a popular day,
with judicious timing and positioning it was possible to lose
most people from the pictures. Except the young girl, just swimming
into shot, bottom right.
Moving away from the moorland
a lot of the side streams are in lovely sylvan glades.
Not many of the fields above,
however, hold such a colourful bunch of locals ...
... or as dense a spread
of buttercups (and red sorrel). The far hillside is re-vegetating
after last year's fire.
From Turn Edge looking East
towards Flash village.
..
Walking through farms, I
find the dams keeping a wary eye on the stranger with their off-spring
so young and vulnerable.
..
Other locals were more taken
up with their own preoccupations. "Now, where did you say
you left that egg? I haven't seen it yet!" and "I do
assure you, there was water here the other day!"
Back over the Dane into
Cheshire: a farm bridge at Knarr.
Looking South down the valley
from Knarr, towards the back of the Roaches ridge.
Continued
in Part III
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