Farndon: bluff and walls
A view of red sandstone bluffs and walls in the village of Farndon (Cheshire, in west-central England), looking from a meadow along the bank of the River Dee, on a partly sunny afternoon in mid-May 2022.
This spot is near Farndon Bridge and a picnic site within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (Dee Cliffs, Farndon, SSSI). The trees are in full leaf, a chestnut tree is blooming, and, in the meadow, wildflowers – and nettles – flourish.
The bridge crosses the Dee and the Welsh border to the village of Holt (Wrexham County Borough, in northeastern Wales) and is thus also called Holt Bridge (in Welsh, Pont Holt). In this northern part of the Welsh Marches, the border between England and Wales changed a number of times, so Farndon was sometimes in Wales; it retains the alternative Welsh name Rhedynfre.
Currently, Farndon is jurisdictionally within the unitary authority Cheshire West and Chester.
(Information from Historic England’s National Heritage List (entry no. 1279428); Coflein, the digital part of the National Monuments Record of Wales (record number 24043); and the Farndon Parish Council website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 25 April 2023.)
[Farndon bluff 1 trees 2022-05-20 o; P5190061]
Farndon: bluff and walls
A view of red sandstone bluffs and walls in the village of Farndon (Cheshire, in west-central England), looking from a meadow along the bank of the River Dee, on a partly sunny afternoon in mid-May 2022.
This spot is near Farndon Bridge and a picnic site within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (Dee Cliffs, Farndon, SSSI). The trees are in full leaf, a chestnut tree is blooming, and, in the meadow, wildflowers – and nettles – flourish.
The bridge crosses the Dee and the Welsh border to the village of Holt (Wrexham County Borough, in northeastern Wales) and is thus also called Holt Bridge (in Welsh, Pont Holt). In this northern part of the Welsh Marches, the border between England and Wales changed a number of times, so Farndon was sometimes in Wales; it retains the alternative Welsh name Rhedynfre.
Currently, Farndon is jurisdictionally within the unitary authority Cheshire West and Chester.
(Information from Historic England’s National Heritage List (entry no. 1279428); Coflein, the digital part of the National Monuments Record of Wales (record number 24043); and the Farndon Parish Council website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 25 April 2023.)
[Farndon bluff 1 trees 2022-05-20 o; P5190061]