エルウッド貯水池での周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

Obviously you have to pick the right time of the year to really appreciate the Rhoddys

Fantastic old ruins of Errwood Hall

It's asking for a rolly polly

Poo sticks anyone

Great short walk around the reservoir

It's amazing when you get underneath them!!

Errwood Hall was built in the 1830s by Samuel Grimshawe, a wealthy Manchester businessman, and was occupied by the Grimshawe family for the next hundred years. The hall was the centre of a thriving estate of over 2,000 acres (8.1 km2), consisting of several farms, a school, the Cat and Fiddle Inn, a private coal mine and the hamlet of Goyt's Bridge. The family planted many specimen trees including an abundance of azaleas and rhododendrons. Samuel’s grandchildren were the last members of the family to live in the hall, which was later demolished in connection with the construction of the Fernilee Reservoir in 1934. Stones from the demolished hall were used to construct the water treatment works below the reservoir.

The small graveyard of the Grimshawe family and their favourite servants stands on top of the hill behind the ruins of Errwood Hall, providing magnificent views over the surrounding countryside. The main pathway up to the graves was through an imposing stone archway and up a flight of stone steps. Then arch has long since gone, but the steps remain. Today the path up the steps can get muddy and overgrown, but there is an alternative route up the hillside behind the ruins of Castedge Farm.