This week I had a drive out into leafy Cheshire, and having stopped at various locations I decided up Rode Hall. However, when I actually got to the location, it was closed. Moral of the story, google isn’t always right.
Sitting outside the closed car park I consulted the map and found that Mow Cop was only about 4 miles away. So off I went. Here is a little history.
Built by Randle Wilbraham in 1754 as a folly, it was designed to resemble medieval ruins. Wilbraham of nearby Rode Hall constructed the elaborate summerhouse and circular tower to look like medieval fortress ruins.
The area around the castle was nationally famous for the quarrying of high-quality millstones, querns, for use in water mills. Excavations at Mow Cop have found querns dating back to the Iron Age. Traces of a prehistoric camp have also been found here.
At this point it was about 11.30am and it was a bright sunny day. Here are a selection of images taken with my Fuji XPro-3 with the 16mm f2.8 lens. All edited in Lightroom with the Classic. Negative film simulation.
