Daily photos no. 60: it's a fair Cop

One of my favourite places in the midlands is Mow Cop, a rocky outcrop in North Staffordshire overlooking the Cheshire plains all the way to Merseyside and north Wales. It's a funny old place - the village was a hotbed of Primitive Methodism (a progressive splinter group) in a sea of Wesleyan Methodism: between that and its relative isolation, rumours of a consanguinity started to circulate. There's a dramatic folly on top of the hill (which is known in cycling circles as the Killer Mile), the site of Primitive Methodism's birth in the early 19th century. It also features in Alan Garner's strange and powerful novel Red Shift.