Today I've been with ickle man to Mow Cop and it was soo dark,wild and windy it was cool. This prominent hill-top has been of spiritual and practical significance to man for thousands of years.
And when you go up it you feel that too!! The sense of wilderness, of loneliness, of HEIGHT, is worth any effort to get there. You can see most of Stoke on Trent in one direction and most of Cheshire in the other. Mow Cop gets its name from Moel Cop - a bald hill. A remote mountain spur, it is, in fact, the Southernmost point of the Pennines - the "backbone of England". The castle itself is actually a folly but the hill has great significance as it is the highest point in the area...steeped in history.Anyway the blast of fresh air was great and you always feel ontop of the world when you climb a hill.