N THE POPULAR imagination, mountains are often thought of as intractable obstacles to be overcome, summits to be conquered, or impressive things to be admired. In reality, they are much more than that: cloud-collectors, river-makers and life-givers that produce half of the world’s freshwater, on which billions of human beings
Mow Cop
A STRANGE, evocative name for a hill on the margins of the region from which my mother’s family originated in the Cheshire/Staffordshire borderland. Mow Cop is an interesting, rugged little hill, too, with an early Primitive Methodist chapel in the v
