This octagonal building is by the road at Tixall. There is some doubt whether it is a former turnpike road tollhouse, or an ornamental lodge for the one-time stately home.
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Oak tree flowering
Wild garlic flowering
Canal scenes
More canal scenes
More views by the Staffs & Worcs canal. Within sight of the aqueduct where the canal crosses the river Stour a sandstone cliff has been cut to allow the canal to pass. At the base of the cliff there is a mysterious black door.
The aqueduct itself, pictured from the bank of the Stour.
Further along towards Stewponey, the junction where the Stourbridge canal heads uphill from its junction with the Staffs and Worcs.
Speckled wood butterfly
Folly – Shugborough Park
Danish scurvy grass
This salt-loving plant presumably originated in northern Europe. It has now spread along the margins of main roads in the countryside, where the splashes of salt-rich spray from winter gritting saturate roadside soil.
It forms a low and narrow band which starts at the very edge of the road, a few inches wide. Best seen in spring when it is in flower. These pictures taken on April 23rd, by the A513 outside Shugborough Park, but the plant seemed to be flowering on all the local A-roads outside built up areas.