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Also known as Gawton's Dolmen and The Healing Stone this arrangement... (more)

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The gap in the mossy wall leads into Greenway Bank Country Park.... (more)

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The gap in the wall is the exit from Greenway Bank Country Park, from... (more)

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As the name suggests the Hawthorn Shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)... (more)

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This little Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) looked as if it had recently... (more)

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These Foxgloves are growing next to the path beside Knypersley Pool on... (more)

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This lovely specimen was standing tall and proud by the path on Greenway... (more)

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The sun shining on and through the SJ8955 : Horse Chestnut leaves is really making... (more)

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This little clump of Wood Sorrel is getting enough nutrients from the... (more)

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This yellow Rhododendron, surrounded by Bluebells, is growing in what... (more)

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These steps climb the hill from the Serpentine Lake to the old garden at... (more)

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This flower-head is growing on SJ8855 : Guelder Rose on Greenway Bank Country Park.... (more)

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This Guelder Rose is growing in the old gardens on Greenway Bank Country... (more)

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This beautiful Rhododendron makes a wonderful splash of colour near the... (more)

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This cluster of Rhododendron flowers are on the SJ8855 : Rhododendron bush near the car park on Greenway... (more)

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This is a great resource for wildlife, invertebrates will use it for... (more)

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Growing beside the Long Walk on Biddulph Grange Country Park. The... (more)

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This single Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is growing near the Fishpool on... (more)

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Viewed from across the Fishpool, this lady has found a quiet corner to... (more)

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This Yellow Iris flower with bud behind and fly feeding is one of the... (more)

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The Yellow Iris are starting to come into flower on the margin of the... (more)

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Viewed from across the Fishpool the gentleman was enjoying a sunny July... (more)

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A close-up of one of the flowers seen in SJ8959 : Bearded Iris. It is growing on... (more)

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These Bearded, or Garden, Iris (Iris germanica) are growing next to the... (more)

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Compare this picture with SJ8959 : Pond by the Fishpool taken from the same position and we... (more)

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Looking under the closest bridge visible in SJ9059 : Twin Bridges, it is one of two... (more)

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The Himalayan Walk on Biddulph Grange Country Park crosses a bend in the... (more)

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Looking down the stream and Himalayan Walk from the SJ9059 : Twin Bridges that... (more)

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Looking down at the SJ9059 : Twin Bridges and the Himalayan Walk from the top of... (more)

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The sunlight shining through the Beech leaves is making a dappled effect... (more)

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This is a close-up of the flower seen in SJ8959 : Welsh Poppy. The Welsh Poppy... (more)

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The Himalayan Balsam is thriving in the stream just outside the boundary... (more)

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This lovely clump of Ox-eye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) was growing in... (more)

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Glimpsed through the trees of Deep Hayes Country Park on a grey March day.

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Between Park Pool and Cumberledge Pool, two of the three pools in the park.

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Straight on [north] for the Newcastle Way, left [west] for a climb... (more)

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Apedale Community Country Walk is popular with walkers.

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Bringing a passenger train into the station.

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Narrow gauge steam on the Apedale Valley Light Railway - see Link .

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Alongside a former quarry.

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Alongside the Newcastle Way in Apedale Community Country Park.

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Visitors and guide about to enter Apedale Mine. It is a footrail [drift]... (more)

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One of the many tracks and paths in the country park which the public are... (more)

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Taking a footpath over a drain on a former opencast site.

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Excellent museum display and good cafe - see Link .

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The whole of this hillside was created by land restoration after opencast... (more)

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Much of Apedale Community Country Park has been created from former opencast.

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Watermills Wood was saved from opencast coal mining because of its value... (more)

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Pools within a footpath dogleg.

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At the eastern edge of Watermills Wood.

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