WIth Helen. Mow Cop is the name of both a small town in Cheshire and a hill on which said town is located. I gather the first word sounds like the Chinese dictator, not like what you do to your lawn. It is distinguished for its ‘castle’ which is not a castle but a folly erected in 1754 by a local bigwig and by a sticky out bit of rock called the Old Man o’Mow. There is a car park just below the castle in High Street which would appear to be named for its altitude, not its importance. We parked there then went to have look at the trig point. Well, I went to look at trig point while Helen, who has yet to understand why trig points are exciting, followed in some bafflement. The Old Man is just below this on the Gritstone Trail. After being on this very briefly we took a left to headownhill on the South Cheshire Way to the Macclesfield Canal. This took us took Scholar Green where we reached the Rising Sun pub just in time for lunch. Lunch done and back on our way, we crossed the bridge and headed back up the hill up Spring Bank. At Meadowsde Lane we turned right meaning to follow the footpath continuation of that but found it closed. So left instead down Birch Tree Lane then footpath running parallel to Station Road, then Top Station Road, then High Street again and so home. Not a very demanding walk but a very pleasant one.
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