For the third Monday morning running, I parked up outside Graeme's house for another socially distanced, but very sociable, stroll around the environs of Wilmslow, or, more correctly on this occasion, Alderley Edge.
Our path led across the golf course at a different Davenport Green to the one that Sue and I walked through last week near Altrincham, to cross the railway at Nether Alderley, to the south of Alderley Edge station. A fox strolled across the lines before this Freightliner cavalcade rumbled under the bridge.
This is an area of varied, but mainly "Upper Class", housing. We passed this delightful 'cottage'.
With a thatched roof in the background this intense patch of Monkey Flower was more striking than the snapshot indicates.
Heading north from near Nether Alderley, and with footballers' mansions (ugly monstrosities so they must be footballers'?) to our left, we paused in a field for refreshments, watching a powerful machine plant fence posts in the distance as another walker strolled past.
Back in Alderley Edge, we passed the Drum and Monkey pub (it seems ages since it changed its name from the Moss Rose) and continued through what might pass for Alderley Edge's version of social housing, eventually returning to Graeme's via the nicely manicured golf course.
Here's our 11 km route - 2.5 hours plus breaks.
Thanks again to Graeme for acting as guide, and see you next week...
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