Exploring the countryside

Given the time line of this blog obviously some explorations and hiking is missed out so today I thought I'd share one from Spring 2018 around the time I joined ASB and Tumblr that were to play big part in my recovery.

One thing we are not short of across this district is access to open fields and the countryside even from the more built up area of the city region and even from the smaller urban villages you may not have far to walk before you leave the brick faced uniformity for open countryside such as this.

Here the lambs get on with grazing in a field with a traditional late eighteenth century farm house present although it has been subject to alterations over the years before more control about such work was instituted.

In the background you can the ridges of Congleton Edge that form the boundary between Cheshire and Staffordshire although as anyone around here will tell you Biddulph, Leek and Congleton have far more in common with each other than the natural centres of their respective regions such as Birmingham and Manchester.

Really they all fall geographically within the North/North-west Midlands.