June 24th – This week, I passed through Tixall, which is something I tend not to do much now Shugborough’s gates are open more. Tixall really is an odd little place with a lost village feel to it: From the gazebo overlooking the river and canal valley, to the lost avenue, ridiculous but gorgeous gatehouse and the bottle lodge.
You can’t fail to adore this place really.
September 25th – Tixall, the supporting village for the Shugborough Estate, lives in the shadow of its stately brother. But the little hamlet – not much more that a set of converted farm buildings, a huge, folly gatehouse, pepper pot lodge and chapel is beautiful, mores at this time of year.
The grand avenue – stretching across the lane – is still gorgeous, with a sense of sad, melancholy Ichabod as cows browse over the once neatly cut fields around the stone gazebo.
The pepper pot lodge – designed to mimic the towers on the gatehouse – is a lovely, peculiar curiosity.
I haven’t been here for ages. I forgot how lovely it is.
October 6th – From Milford, I headed out via Tixall and all it’s remarkable architecture and hit the canal at Hoo Mill. Returning along it to Rugeley rewarded me with a great golden hour and some lovely toadstools I’d not seen before. This was a great ride on what surely must be one of the last warm, sunny days of the year. I’m glad I was out and able to enjoy it.
May 9th – Following a post on the Lichfield Lore blog (of which more later on The Brownhills Blog), today on my way home I visited the gazebo folly on Borrowcop Hill, Lichfield. A fascinating thing, to be sure, with good views – I was hoping to watch the impeding storm arrive. Sadly, it never came, but some nice landscape shots in the meantime.
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