The Kerridge Hills. 1 1 3 



near, a stream gliding below, and views from the upper 

 windows that reach for many miles across the undulating 

 and sweetly variegated greensward. The romantic bit at 

 present is the ravine hard by, saturated in spring with 

 tender wild-flowers, the wood-sorrel in myriads. 



Prestbury, a few miles beyond, also has great attrac- 

 tions for the antiquary, the chancel and south aisle of the 

 church being of about A.D. 1130, while the school-house 

 in the graveyard is entered by a doorway with apparently 

 Norman mouldings. The tower is about A.D. 1460. If 

 in search more particularly of rural pastime, we take the 

 contrary side of the line, and so through the lanes and 

 fields to the delicious Kerridge hills. Remarkable for 

 their very sudden rise out of the plain, these green and 

 airy hills command views, like those obtained at Alderley, 

 of truly charming extent and variety. Tegsnose, at the 

 southern extremity, is thirteen hundred feet above the 

 sea-level the little building just above Bollington, called 

 "White Nancy," plainly visible from the line near 

 Wilmslow when the sunlight falls on it, is nine hundred 

 and thirty feet; no wonder that from this last, since 

 there is nothing to intercept, the prospect in favourable 

 weather reaches to Liverpool, and even to the sweet 

 wavy lavender upon the horizon that indicates North 

 Wales. 



Bollington is now reached also by a line (part of the 



Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire system,) which 



diverges for Macclesfield at Woodley Junction. This 



perhaps gives nearer approach to the Kerridge hills ; in 



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