#pretty places in the uk

[merinsedai]

Merin's Mediocre Guide to....Wincle.

#1 in my series of 'places I drive through and think are nice'

Wincle is a small village in the Cheshire Peak District. It's mostly farms but also has a church, a school, a pub, a brewery and a trout farm. What more could you ask for? Well, a shop. I love a little shop for all my disorganised needs.

I'm a sucker for a country church and this is a nice one indeed.

St Michael's is a traditional parish church with a Norman Tower. It looks very pretty in the Autumn when the ivy (Virginia creeper? I don't know, some climbing plant) turns vivid red. A church has stood here since at least the mid 17th c; the current building was completely restored in the 1880s.

There are lots of higgledy-piggledy graves in the church yard and there is a fantastic view back across to Hanging Stone (a local landmark) and general pretty Peak District countryside. (You can't actually *see* the Hanging Stone in this photo, but it's there and you can in real life.)

The church stands next to its associated CE Primary School. A cute and traditional looking little school. This building dates from 1865 though there has been a school here for a lot longer than that, apparently.

How cute is that little Spire? Anyway, unlike many rural primary schools (locally, this includes the schools at Wildboarclough, Flash, Meerbook and probably others I can't remember right now), this one has so far escaped the fate of closure.

Since they're completely surrounded by farms, these kids get to look at sheep and cows during their play times. Plenty of tractors rumbling past too. Can it be smelly? Almost certainly. Does anyone care? Unknown.

Wincle also boasts a traditional pub called The Ship Inn. I've never been in but my mum has and she was very complimentary. I was once told that the Ship Inn was named after local legend Sir Philip Brocklehurst, who went on a jaunt on the Nimrod with Ernest Shackleton in the 1900s (Good for him.) ship, The Swythamley, but since the pub has been named The Ship Inn for far longer than that, sadly that must be false. Maybe the picture on the sign was The Nimrod or The Swythamley? (It's a coat of arms now, but used to be an actual ship) Something to investigate. (Full disclosure- I didn't take this photo, I just got it from trip advisor.) Anyway, this place is popular with walkers and day trippers and it looks cosy.

While there is sadly no village shop, Wincle is also home to an award winning brewery. In 2019 it was named in the top 5 most scenic breweries in the country by The Guardian. Admittedly, when you consider where most breweries are located, this isn't too hard a list to top. However, it IS extremely picturesque, set in the valley at the bottom of the village, on the banks of the River Dane. The Dane forms the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire here, which begs the question (to me)- the houses on the other side of the river- are they still Wincle? Are they still counted as Cheshire? I know not.

Walks along the Dane Valley itself are very pleasant. Plenty of pretty pastoral countryside to see and in the Springtime, the forest is carpeted in bluebells. My photography leaves much to be desired but trust me, it's very pretty.

In conclusion:

What a lovely little village! Could I live here? No, I couldn't afford it. Also, there's no shop unless you drive to Macclesfield, and there's lots of snow in the winter and I hate hate hate snow.

Tune in next time for my medicore guide to.... FLASH!

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: sparrowinlondon

[black-and-yellow]

[l0veyourselfirst]

Oscar Piastri for Gentleman’s Journal

[satans-knitwear]

my gift to me 👀👌✨

Treat me ~ Tip me ~ More of me

[nostalgia-tblr]

Fiction

There's a specific arrangement in place to let police from England follow a stolen car across the Scottish border, yet I'm supposed to believe the Avengers can just turn up out of nowhere and start shooting their very-illegal-in-Scotland weapons in the middle of Edinburgh and there's no possible issue here?

[call-me-pup2]

Being a brave pup and leaving the house to go on an adventure later today 😣

(Said adventure is just a lil bus trip then walk to go visit my gran)

[armand-dearest]

Went to another pretty place today, yaaay!

[menlove]

out of curiosity bc I want to know if it really is Just the US and our poor education system or if it's an issue for other western majority English speaking countries as well so.....

[mosswolf]

i keep seeing people who aren't usamerican reblogging that post about being protected under the migratory birds act and im like lol no tf u arent

[tinknevertalks]

Does anyone else look at clothes online, think, "Oh my god, why is it all so expensive?" as well as, "I could make that!" (even though all you've sewn is two dice bags (one not that well), three pairs of pj trousers, and a shirt... oh and two face masks).

Just me?

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Fire in a Honey Pot (1.8, LWT, 1972)

"You make it sound very convincing."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Your Mr. Logan was seen at the club on the afternoon before it burnt."

"Oh, now, don't ask me what could have taken him there, to a place like that."

"You mean you've never heard of the protection business?"

"Isn't that what you're in?"

[gaia-prime]

And if you would, put the country/region you’re in in the tags, or a park/forest near you that you can visit to see them 💛

[gold-finch]

romanticising old university cities seems so silly to me. you're not that special for studying in an old building

[idknotgonnapost]

back in the village (wiltshire) i love the mobile service here (none whatsoever)

[thethingything]

so we use these little packs of disposable travel toothbrushes that we can keep next to our bed and don't have to rinse after using them or anything because between executive dysfunction, sensory issues, and fatigue, this is basically the only way we can keep up with brushing our teeth regularly.

anyway, I realised we'd almost ran out and went to buy more and they suddenly aren't available anywhere. we'd get a pack of 24 for relatively cheap and now all I can seem to find are packs of 1 or 2 "travel toothbrushes" that are basically just normal toothbrushes for the same price as a pack of the ones we normally get. the brand that made them has nothing about them on its website besides a pack of 2 toothbrushes listed under the same name that aren't the same product.

so anyway now I need to figure out an alternative for the sake of actually being able to manage our dental hygiene because the one thing that was letting us do that somewhat adequately isn't available anymore