The very name Tegg's Nose ensnares the imagination and the first time I heard it I had to know what this was all about. There is something about Tegg's Nose Country Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire which draws me there when I need some space, some peace, some thinking time. It is an easy climb, a family walk and can be used as a start of several walks around the wonderful Macclesfield Forest.
So what is Tegg's Nose? Tegg's Nose is a hill to the East of Macclesfield in Cheshire. It does not qualify as a mountain, too short and has a high peak of 1246 feet . It is to the West of the England's Peak District. A Tegg is the Old English word for a sheep aged older than a lamb but younger than a fully grown sheep . The name has a Saxon / Viking sound to me. A Naze ( Nose ) is a promontory, a high land that juts out into the landscape. Hence Tegg's Nose takes its name, a sheep promontory.
Today I took some photos along my walk.
Believe it or not, I live just a few miles from here. How blessed am I !
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The steps in the picture are for going either up or down.
Millstone grit has had many industrial uses including, grinding stones for corn, road fillers and roofing materials.
Veronica, Thank you for the lovely pictures and walkabout! Are the railings on the steps for people going up or down? Is the heather pickable? What was millstone grit's prime use in the area?
Spelling and scripts were not regulated then though and often depended on the literacy of the writer. .... which is yet another aspect of social history.
interesting, as I have seen the f without the bar in eighteenth century texts. The script must have been changing.
No I have found the newsprint of the Stamford Mercury in 1716 has the word Messenger as Meffenger .... two f ; and again in 1722, the Lord Chancellor was created Earl of Maccleffield.
Therefore, the spelling of Maccleffield was known.
I have met writings in which the letter s is formed as an f from the sixteenth and early seventeenth century.However, they distinguished the two as the s had no bar on it, unlike the f, so I suspect that the engraver made a little mistake and it just had to stand.
Picking whinberries today I saw the above wayside stone.
I have added the photo above as I saw it today on my day out. I add it because it has a very very old spelling of Macclesfield from when back in the days that "s" was written as an "f " .
This stone must be so old.
Whinberries are very small and sweet, delicious. We pick them and use them in cordials, jams and crumbles.
Billberry is one of six related species in the genus Vaccinium. Whinberry is the same species as bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillis, but may be a distinct variety within the species. Variety is a classification level equivalent to a subspecies, but unlike a subspecies, which is often localized to an area, it is widespread. Blackberry has even more variety, for there are scores of localized varieties in the one species.
TY for telling me . Because you did, I caught it on BBC iplayer and it showed Tegg's Nose at its finest. It did though refer to whinberries as bilberries though and wild whinberries are actually a smaller version of the bilberry which is in its turn a smaller version of the blueberry.