Pole

Walking up to Stanage Pole once again, I noticed butterflies flitting around by the side of the moorland path and managed to catch this good example of  a peacock butterfly. To me those markings on the lower wings always look .like eyes. I have no idea if this is what Nature intended as this common butterfly evolved but some say it was all about scaring off would-be predators.

A pole has stood by The Long Causeway at Stanage for several centuries. About ten years ago, a new pole was installed on the rocks with the newly made iron holder pictured below. Is shows that the pole does not only mark the modern boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire but it once marked the boundary between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria

Mercia and Northumbria were just two of the old kingdoms that preceded the formation of a land that we now call England. Below, Stanage Pole as it is today rising up from the iron base. It is considerably shorter than it was when I first saw it in 1979...

Regular visitors to this blog may recall being taken up to Stanage Pole in previous blogposts but certainly not for a while. Looking to the north west from the pole you see Stanedge Lodge - the loneliest and highest residential building in Sheffield. It has been up for sale for a while now...

And looking in a more westerly direction, a neglected drystone wall rolls across the moor to Stanage Edge...

In spite and because of my sore back, I took this afternoon's walk just to see how I would do and to loosen up. I am happy to report that all went well and as always it was of course good to get out in the fresh air - three miles from our doorstep.

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