Mow Cop Castle

Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop inside the civil parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. It is recorded within the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed constructing. The ridge, upon which the fort sits, bureaucracy the boundary among the counties of Cheshire and Staffordshire, the dioceses of Chester and Lichfield and the ecclesiastical provinces of Canterbury and York. Traces of a prehistoric camp had been found here, built in 1754, Randle Wilbraham of nearby Rode Hall constructed an tricky summerhouse looking like a medieval fort and round tower.

The region across the fort turned into nationally well-known for the quarrying of first-rate millstones querns to be used in water mills. Excavations at Mow Cop have determined querns relationship back to the Iron Age. The Castle was given to the National Trust in 1937. The same year over ten thousand Methodists met at the hill to commemorate the first Primitive Methodist camp assembly there. Though site visitors were firstly allowed inside the folly the region surrounding it's been fenced off because of an example of suicide off the cliff side. On the flip of the millennium inside the year 2000 a big fire became lit beside the folly as part of a network of speaking beacons across the united states of america