Sunday morning moored just outside Poynton ready to move on tomorrow to the marina for Sybil to go into storage for a week whilst we are back in Yorkshire.
Looking at Google Earth yesterday I was surprised to see an enormous runway and airfield with the runway ending just on the edge of the village .
A bit of research showed that it wasWoodford the site of Avro aircraft (BAE) who over the last ninety years produced many aircraft there from Lancaster's to Vulcan Bombers but is now closed down and awaiting redevelopment.
I bet that when they overflew the village the noise would have been horrific .
Have once seen a Vulcan fly past at low level at Church Fenton airshow very loud and very impressive just for its sheer bulk.

This was the view over the Goyt valley as we came back down the Peak Forest Canal

While scuffling about in the adjacent woods I discovered this structure each of the stone blocks are around three feet long and fifteen inches square looks like it could have been a basin as it was level with the canal and swept round to join up ,To the left and below is the railway line.

But it had been used as a tip perhaps dredgings from the canal and was overgrown with saplings and rubbish

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