Chelmorton (Church Lane) - Five Wells Chambered Cairn - Sough Top - Taddington - Humphrey Gate - The Jarnett - Flagg - Chelmorton (Church Lane)

The intention of todays walk was to visit the neolithic chambered cairn at Five Wells. It turned out to be a lovely sunny day after a slightly overcast start. The walk was an easy one along well defined paths. The fields on the approach to Taddington were fairly steep and quite muddy in places. Five Wells chambered cairn extends to a diameter of 70 feet. The burial site had two wedge shaped chambers at its centre resting back to back each with a passage leading to the stone curbed periphery. Though now roofless parts of twelve human skeletons were found during excavations in 1846 and 1899. Further along the walk is Sough Top with its Radio Mast, Reservoir (Severn Trent) and Trig Point (438 metres). The trig point is situated in a field close to the walk (however there is no access to the trig point itself). I encounted a flock of birds under attack near the village of Flagg. The attack lasted for several minutes until they managed to disperse. Above Taddington near Humphrey Gate is an interesting pond which is certainly full of history and is called Taddington Moor High Mere.

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