Welcome. I am David.
All my life I have loved finding things out. Discovering original things especially about the landscape and the clues it offers. Sometimes, it is the rebel within. Proving what is taken as fact without bothering to look deeper. I enjoy a good challenge.
I’m not a historian but rather a landscape geographer and very keen naturalist. I guess one encourages the other. Both mean getting out and about and observing the natural world.
Over the last year or so I got drawn into discovering Cheshire’s lost water and wind mills after finding a watermill nearby. It was a mystery. Hardly, anything was known about it, not even by local people. It was basically an overgrown pile of rubble. This was the trigger. That lead to searching out windmills.
The major detective work started some months ago. I visited a place a few miles away. It was in a marshy backwater, had three stone bridges, unique in Britain, set across a small river.
The place is Hockenhull Platts, near Tarvin, not far from Chester and the river is the Gowy.
It has a rich story to tell. One barely told, hardly studied with any imagination and ripe for the telling.
Here, you will read and see its fascinating story and a lot more besides.
