Wincle
& Danebridge
Lying some 5/6 miles south
of Macclesfield the two settlements split by the River Dane merge
by popular usage into the one - Wincle.
The parish council probably
erected this notice at the entrance to the trout farm on the Cheshire
side of the river.
The stone bridge carries
the road high over the River Dane, the boundary with Staffordshire.
The river flows through Congleton, flows by Holmes Chapel and
is joined by the Wheelock at Middlewich, flowing thence into the
Weaver at Northwich.
Luxuriant moss growth on
the roadside wall under the beech canopy ...
... opposite this house
with the unusual windows.
Higher up the road, well
above the river, looking back to Wincle.
Walking alongside the boundary
wall of the Swythamley Estate affords this view down over Wincle.
The phone box from the first picture is bottom right. St Michael's
Wincle is among the buildings just discernible in a clump of trees
at the foot of the far green hill on the right. Wincle does wander,
doesn't it?
Looking across the curve
of the ridge to The Roaches and Hen Cloud just discernible in
the haze.
Behind me the pointing fist
of Hangingstone ...
... with the memorial plaque
to Lt Col Brocklehurst - cavalryman, pilot,commando and Game Warden.
Looking north to a hazy
Shutlingsloe and the tip of Macclesfield Forest peeping out on
the left.
Continued
in Part II
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