A Day on Cannock Chase
This morning 13 members joined Ian and I for a photography walk to find the famous Groot tree on Cannock Chase that was the inspiration behind Tolkien’s ‘TreeBeard’ character from ‘Lord of the Rings’ when he came across the ‘man like’ tree while stationed on Cannock Chase during the first world war.
We met at the Punchbowl car park and made our way onto the chase and down Sherbrook Valley. Before reaching stepping stones we took a right turn which took us into the ancient oak wood and after about 100 yards of ascent, the tree came into view. After 10 minutes of photography around the tree we all made our way down to Sherbrook Valley again and walked along to Stepping Stones where more photos were taken along with a group photo taken by Linda. We then made our way back up the valley to Merepit pool and the German cutting which was cut through the hillside by German prisoners of war to create a railway line upto the army training camps that were set up on the chase during the first world war.
Unfortunately no deer were spotted today but luckily the weather was kind to us.
Keren Morrall