Mow Cop
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Mow Cop is a village on the Cheshire-Staffordshire border, England, 24 miles south of Manchester and 6 miles north of Stoke-on-Trent, on a steep hill of the same name rising to 335 metres above sea le
Mow Cop Castle
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In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of
Mow Cop
…Staffordshire Railway, served the village from 9 October 1848 to its closure in 1964. The most dominant feature of the village is Mow Cop Castle, a folly of a ruined castle at the summit of the hill, built in 1754. Both Mow Cop Castle and the Old Man O'Mow are under the management of the National Trust…
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