Teggs Nose is a country park near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Setting off
Bottoms Reservoir, one of the many reservoirs in the area
It is a very hilly area too.
The group were glad to take a lunch break....
.....outside the Leathers Smithy pub.
Happy to take a break and enjoy a sandwich
Nice location for lunch...
....all neatly set out on a corner.
Ridgegate Reservoir and Macclesfield Forest.
A reservoir run-off or bywash.
Ridgegate Reservoir, Its an area of forest and lake.
A carved owl sculpture in the forest.
Track thrrough Macclesfield Forest
Path to the forest chapel.
St. Stephen's Church, known as The Forest Chapel - Built in1673 rebuilt 1834.
The alter.
View of its interior.
Teggs Nose escarpment in the distance. Nose is from the Norse "naze " or headland.
Handy bench at the top of Saddlers Way.
Old machinery - quarrying was once a local industry.
Ridgegate Reservoir from a high viewpoint.
Macclesfield Forest and pasture, with wisps of morning mist.
The "A" walkers had a good day too.
They take time out for a group photo.
Terraced path.
Jim Cannell
Nice photo of early Spring foliage.
Hillside
The "A" walkers group.
JC and Bobby Hunt.
A forest path
Trio photo call.
Teggs Nose gets its strange name from its Norse origins, being in the domain of a Norse settler named Tagge,
A view of the area as it appears under snow.
Margaret Grundy and friends suss the "C" walk route.
The "C" walkers descend from Teggs Nose.
The "C" walk.
Indian file down the hill.
Taking a break before the climb up to the car park.
Chilling out for some "C" walkers.
The path to the car park, quite a climb too.
At the end of the day - the pub - bliss!
The Navigation Inn at Whaley Bridge - a detour to reach - but worth it.
Interior seems nice, and the food was good. That's another fine day you got us into.
