Landscape History Today: the Bulletin of CSLH January 2014 Number 54 Dairy Farm, Weobley Contents Chair’s Message 3 I do like to be beside the seaside ... 4 Church Open! 15 Follow the Arrow, the Lugg and the Wye 18 Restoring Blanche 27 The Year Ahead ... 30 Nantwich - then and now 39 Dates for the diary Members may be interested in the following event ... Saturday 26th April 2014 - Cheshire Archaeology Day Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University Programme of events 2014 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/cnwrs/events/index.htm Editor: Dr. Sharon Varey, Meadow Brook, 49 Peel Crescent, Ashton Hayes, Cheshire, CH3 8DA Email:
[email protected] Web: www.chesterlandscapehistory.org.uk Page 2 Chair’s Message Welcome to the January edition of the Bulletin. First of all, a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who renewed their CSLH membership at the November lecture. This is a really great help to the Society enabling us to keep stationery and postage costs down to a minimum. Autumn 2013 was a busy time for the Planning Team, putting in place a varied programme of lectures, visits and events for 2014. As you will be aware, there has been a ‘cabinet reshuffle’ amongst Planning Team members with Diane Johnson becoming Lectures organiser and Gwilym Hughes organising and overseeing our field visits programme. In recent months, Diane and Gwilym have been working closely with Mike (H) and Mike (T) to ensure a seamless handover. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, there will be no residential break this year. We know this will be a great disappointment to many members, but rest assured, plans are already well underway for 2015! However, we are running an additional event this year.