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A pictorial alphabet of favourite places around England – P for Princes Woods (1)
A pictorial alphabet of favourite places I've sketched and painted around England
This is the third area of my local patch, lying between Higher Poynton and the Macclesfield Canal, already featured, where coal used to be mined in the only sizeable coalfield in Cheshire. Most of the pits in the woods were shallow, accessed by tunnel rather than shaft, and there are still big hollows and the remains of brick structures among the trees. Princes Woods appears on maps as Prince’s Wood, or Prince Wood, but the three of us who paint there each week have always called it Princes Woods, as it is a series of separate wooded areas, rather than one big wood. I can find no record of which prince it is named after, or any other history, so I will continue to use my own spelling. The mature, undeveloped, broadleaf woods are interspersed with pastoral farmland, where inquisitive sheep or cattle will often investigate the solitary painter, and this painting is typical of the edge of the woods painted from an adjacent field.
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