It's Friday so I'm joining in with Amy
at Love Made my Home for this week's Five on Friday. Click on the link at
the bottom of this post to find others who are joining in too.
Just a quick post this week and with photos looking back to a short local walk we took couple of weeks ago.
Five scenes taken along the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
Just a quick post this week and with photos looking back to a short local walk we took couple of weeks ago.
Five scenes taken along the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
2. This is the road bridge over the canal which leads to the station. It is bridge number forty four. The red sign is for The Boat Inn Public House which stands on the canal the other side of the bridge, where the boats are moored.
3. The Old Dock House which was used as a Methodist Chapel. Sunday services were held here from the 1790s for quite a few years. It was restored by the British Waterways Board in 1985.
4. Some of the industrial buildings around the Flint Mill, to the left you can see the Victorian Cottage Museum. I remember going inside the cottage, which was the Miller's cottage, quite a few years ago when we visited the mill. It was summer then and the mill was open to visitors and there was a canal barge moored outside which belonged to a travelling theatre company.
5. The Flint Mill has been awarded a Grade II* listing from English Heritage and is an interesting collection of buildings showing the importance of industry in the Churnet Valley where the river, canal and railway run side by side. Early references to the mill indicate that it started life as a corn mill but in the 18th century it changed its occupation to the grinding of flint. At the same time the canal was built and the calcined flint produced by the mill was used in the production of earthenware in the nearby pottery factories. Josiah Wedgwood, whose factory at Etruria was at one end of the Caldon canal, had perfected the production of creamware resulting in lighter coloured pottery ware becoming fashionable.
Five more photos taken along the way.
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Fantastic Photos, Thanks for sharing! Hope you have a wonderful Weekend,
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Hello and welcome. Glad you enjoyed the photos. Hope you too have a wonderful weekend:)
DeleteWhat a lovely walk. i will often gravitate towards a canal walk when I am in England. Spent a lot of time walking along the Lancaster canal. Those mill buildings look fascinating. Have a good weekend. B x
ReplyDeleteI always find canals fascinating because of the industrial history of them. I must visit the mill buildings again this summer when they are open:)
DeleteI love to see canal mileposts. I've never visited the Caldon Canal. Perhaps I should add it to my 'to do' list.
ReplyDeleteIt is only a short canal built to serve the industry of the valley but it is fascinating:)
DeleteYou certainly took us not only on a very interesting walk but a beautiful one too. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThank you, glad you enjoyed the walk:)
DeleteGreat photos and a lovely walk. We very often walk by the Kennet and Avon Canal, there is always something of interest on these walks. I would love to explore the Caldon Canal and I am sure my DH would love the Churnet Valley Steam Railway. x
ReplyDeleteThe canal and railway are fascinating and with the river they all run more or less alongside of each other the whole length of the railway:)
DeleteWhat a fab post, it looks amazing!xx
ReplyDeleteThanks, Michelle glad you enjoyed the post. I enjoyed your Five on Friday post too but can't seem to leave you a comment without registering first:)
DeleteYou always take us for such interesting walks.
ReplyDeleteThanks Janet, I'm glad you found it interesting:)
DeleteLove your photos, I miss being by a canal, we lived right on the tow path in Skipton for a while.
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Skipton, what a lovely place to live, I bet you do miss being near the canal:)
DeleteYou do live in a lovely part of the country Rosie. I hope you manage to get out and about this weekend. x
ReplyDeleteWe don't have any plans for the weekend other than a bit of food shopping, we tend to go out in the week when it is quieter but we will probably walk somewhere early on Sunday morning unless it rains. Have a lovely weekend:)
DeleteThose buildings are as amazing! How lucky you are to live in such a historical place. Absolutely beautiful. Have a great weekend, Pat xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Pat, glad you enjoyed the photos of the buildings, hope you too have a great weekend:)
DeleteLovely collection of photos!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Louise:)
DeleteFabulous. Just like stepping back in time :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, you could feel history all around you:)
DeleteWell, that was spooky for me. I suddenly realised that I was recognising the photos and then you said about the Flint Mill and I realised where it was. We stayed just near there last year and walked round the mill one evening when it was closed after a walk along the canal! I didn't expect to see that on a blog today! Thank you!! Thank you for joining Five On Friday, I hope that you have a good weekend! xx
ReplyDeleteOh, not too spooky I hope. You were very close to us, about 10/15 mins away by road. We walk along that canal often at various points along the canal and railway usually at Consall:)
DeleteWonderful spot to visit. I'd like to walk along that canal. Have a lovely weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely canal to walk along side:)
DeleteI always think that a walk along by a canal is an interesting one. There are boats and barges and often interesting old industrial buildings to see along the way.
ReplyDeleteI think the industrial heritage of the canals and associated buildings is facinating but I also enjoy the nature aspects of them too:)
DeleteJust my kind of place to visit! Very enjoyable pictures of your visit!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the rest of the weekend!
Thanks, Chris, hope you have a great weekend too:)
DeleteWalking by a canal would be lovely. The train station has such a fantastical appearance. Great post.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely walk and the station building is very unusual isn't it?:)
DeleteA lovely five Rosie. I love a canal walk and friends of ours are tempted to buy a narrow boat, it always seems such a lovely relaxed way of life. The station looks like you stepped back in time. I hope you are having a great weekend xx
ReplyDeleteIt does look a very relaxed way of life, the only thing that would worry me would be having the strength to open the locks:)
DeleteBeautiful place! The station and the mill are my favorites! Such charm.
ReplyDeleteThe station and mill are rather special aren't they?:)
DeleteWhat a lovely walk, the mill is wonderful great photos..
ReplyDeleteAmanda xx
I will return when it is open and take more photos, when I last visited I didn't have a digital camera:)
DeleteSuch an interesting place to walk. I like to imagine it busy with workers and industry, as it would have been.
ReplyDeleteYes it is hard to imagine what life was like along the canals, so busy and such hard work; a great contrast to the leisure of boating and walking today:)
DeleteThat station building looks so traditional and lovely - and what a lovely walk
ReplyDeleteIt's a great walk. The station building is lovely isn't it?:)
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