On Monday we visited Ilam (pronounced eye-lamb) Park, in the Staffordshire Village of Ilam. It is a 158 acre site which sits on either side of the River Manifold. It's managed by the National Trust.
It seems ages since we last walked there. I'd have to search back through my photos to see when it was. I searched on here and came up with a post of November 2021, so possibly that was the last time.
Ilam Hall, which was re-built and re-designed in the 1820s by the Watts-Russell family, was donated to the National Trust in 1934. The main hall is leased to The Youth Hostel Association.
How the hall used to look before part of it was demolished in the 1930s.
Above The Church of the Holy Cross.
The remains of a Saxon Cross on Paradise Walk. It was found in the foundations of a cottage in the village of Ilam in the 1840s.
Morning Coffee at the tea rooms and a visit to the bookshop before a quick photograph of another wallaby.
This one is Walla-B Fierce painted and illustrated by Ella Kasperowicz in collaboration with Pride in the Moorlands.
It was a lovely morning for a walk, dry and not too warm. There were lots of families enjoying themselves on the Mole Trail.
It was time to move on to our next destination for lunch and another wallaby. I'll save that for a later post.
Happy memories of Ilam staying at the youth hostel in the early eighties with a school group. So much beautiful scenery to enjoy in that corner. B x
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