These bramble flowers make fantastic bee feeding grounds.
For my money, the local authority does a good job here, providing cheap parking, mobility scooters and trails, tree lined car parks, well marked trails of a variety of standards, an attractive playground and places to dispose of disposable barbecues.
Unfortunately, the visitor centre was not well signposted on roads leading from the M6, which meant I went an unnecessarily roundabout route via the centre of Cannock, but it was a minor niggle.
Next time, I want to investigate the relics of the military training camp on the Chase whichh once held 40,000 men including convalescents in a 1000 bed hospital during WW1. I first learnt of this in Clare Balding's Radio 4 programme Ramblings , well worth a listen. These camps were built from scratch in the countryside, and at one time included a church, a post office and a bakery. Imagine the hue and cry now if such a thing was mooted - it's sobering to think that the demands of war might make such a scheme seem reasonable.
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