20-Feb-2022
The other day we walked down to St Johns via the old railway. On Friday and today we walked the rest of the line to Higher Foxdale.
Views of and from the old railway line that ran between Lower Foxdale and Higher Foxdale
The old station building
The river that feeds the waterfall -- our waterfall. There was a railway station here too
There are plenty of handsome old buildings in Higher Foxdale (although if you credit this article, more could have been done to preserve the village's mining heritage):
The 1901 clock tower
St Paul's
And if you carry on past the end of the village, you get to Kionslieu Reservoir:
The weather has not been fantastic since we arrived. No, let's be honest, it's been appalling. But there's so much to like:
I'd forgotten the quartz...
Foxdale: not far from anywhere...