It was a beautiful warm day today so we took advantage of the good weather to do a walk that I have wanted to do for ages. It was the Greenfield Valley Heritage walk, a short walk of about 3 miles but it covered many things like a Medieval Abbey, 19th century mills, a Victorian Farm and St Winefrede's Well.
The walk started in Greenfield and the Basingwerk Abbey and then we worked our way around the site visiting the Lower Cotton Mill where you see the remains of a six storey cotton mill that was built there in just 10 weeks and employed up to 300 apprentices. Continuing onwards we came to Meadow Mill and then upwards to Greenfield Mills. At each Mill there is a large lake that was used to power the machinery in the mills.
Apart from various birds we did not see any of the other wildlife that live in this area but the evidence was there to see.
We then followed the disused railway track up to Holywell and passed under the bridge to where Holywell Railway Station once stood. To look at it now you couldn't imagine that there had been a Railway Station there but a friend had a photo of how it looked in it's heyday and it was reputedly the steepest gradient of any British Rail train.
After looking around Holywell we came down the hill and visited St Winefrede's Well before going back to the car park and a quick visit to the shoreline in Greenfield.