England Gallery – Abbots Moss
Abotts Moss comprises a 12 acre SSSI site of basin mires and heathland within Delamere Forest. The acid floating bogs, dated back to 7000 BC using pollen analysis, originate from the end of the last glacial period and provide a habitat for sphagnum, cotton grass, cranberry, sundew, birch and pine.
England Gallery – Oulton
Thick ice formed on Oulton Mill pool near Little Budworth, Cheshire, in the sub-zero December of 2010. The Old Mill House is pictured through the bullrushes fringing the water’s edge. A fox was out hunting waterfowl on the ice.
England Gallery – Bickerton
Bickerton Hill comprises two low red Triassic sandstone elevations forming the southernmost end of the Mid Cheshire Ridge. An Iron Age fort, Maiden Castle, occupies the summit of the hill and the Sandstone Trail footpath winds it’s way through the extensive cover of lowland heath cloaking the hillsides.
England Gallery – Beeston
The “Castle of the Rock” built in 1220 by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, takes in spectacular views of no less than eight counties on a clear day. Raw Head, the nearby high point of Bickerton Hill, has an elevation of 227m, and was a site of copper mining dating back to the 17th century.
