Pup Obi Travels

Set up a hillside above Alsager in Cheshire likes the folly Mow Cop.  From a distance it looks like an impressive remains of what could have been a castle protecting the lands of Stoke. But ha ho, it’s only a folly, in fact it a summer house built by Randle Wilbraham in 1754. It a lovely spot to visit, we caught it in early March and the site has a different feel in the gloomy early Spring days. Bathed in sunlight it be different take again.

The views from Mow Cop are impressive as they span across Staffordshire and Cheshire Plains. Again on a clearer day the views would be so different, but the casting grim clouds create something different as they roll over the sky.  Cheshire and Staffordshire lay ahead of us from our lofty position. The tower beyond looking down upon us.

Further beyond Mow Cop stands the ‘Old Man of Mow’ a standing stone formation which is said to stand on the site of a former cairn which was lost due to the quarrying in the area. From certain angles the stone formation does look like an old man.  The cairn that was here is said to be linked to Bridstones Burial Chamber which we went to a few months back when we visited The Cloud.