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Milnthorpe Homes, Macclesfield Road, BUXTON, SK17 9AQ

A group of 12 Grade II Listed almshouses of 1904. Architect was W.R. Bryden who designed them for Sir James Sawyer. The plans were published in The Building News on January 27th 1905.

One of the main sources of the River Wye, this resurgence is next to a footpath and just below the B5059 (a bus shelter can be seen through the trees above the spring). The water disappears from sight in Poole's Cavern and flows to this point through passages impenetrable to cavers.

One of the main sources of the River Wye, this resurgence is next to a footpath and just below the B5059 (this picture is taken from the pavement). The water disappears from sight in Poole's Cavern and flows to this point through passages impenetrable to cavers.

Cul-de-sac of large Edwardian houses off Macclesfield Road, first shown on the 1922 25" map. The Buxton Conservation Area appraisal of April 2007 describes the road as follows: "... the outlandish character of Wye Grove, which comprises three-storey semi-detached houses built with a distinctive, jettied, third (attic) storey, marked by a broad, plastered, coved eaves and highly decorative bargeboards. The buildings are mainly stone and render but each pair is different and some also incorporate moulded bricks, terracotta and slate-hanging. The black and white timbering is not used in the vernacular tradition but is used as applied decoration in combination with tile-hanging, most of which has been painted white. Numbers 7 & 8 (the ones at the far end of the road in this photo) are the most unusual, incorporating a little of everything, with filigree details."

Large Edwardian semi-detached house on the corner of Macclesfield Road and Wye Grove, first shown on the 1922 25" map. It shares some of the characteristics of the latter road (see Image) which the Buxton Conservation Area appraisal of April 2007 describes as follows: "... the outlandish character of Wye Grove, which comprises three-storey semi-detached houses built with a distinctive, jettied, third (attic) storey, marked by a broad, plastered, coved eaves and highly decorative bargeboards. The buildings are mainly stone and render but each pair is different and some also incorporate moulded bricks, terracotta and slate-hanging. The black and white timbering is not used in the vernacular tradition but is used as applied decoration in combination with tile-hanging, most of which has been painted white. Numbers 7 & 8 (the ones at the far end of the road in this photo) are the most unusual, incorporating a little of everything, with filigree details."

An open field with a footpath along the left-hand edge

Cottage on Macclesfield Road shown on the 1879 1:500 plan. On the left is part of 16 & 18 Macclesfield Road (see Image).

In the patch of scrub at Image is this enormous plant, identified by two fellow geographists on the forum thread as Gunnera manicata - which the RHS says is sometimes called Chilean rhubarb https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/8136/Gunnera-manicata/Details

A small cutting or quarry at the side of the stream, now overgrown with weeds