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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This was probably "Mellors Gardens" the gardens laid out by one James Mellor in the 19th century and based on the book "The Pilgrim's Progress". It is or was in Rainow in Cheshire and I used to live more or less next door to it. I'm not sure if the new owners have kept it going as the Pilgrim's Progress garden and it only used to be open to the public once or twice a year.
James Mellor was an eccentric inventor and preacher and, apart from laying out the garden, did a lot of stone carving. He set up a marker stone in the wilds of the hills above Rainow to commemorate the death of a man in a snowstorm. The inscription reads:
Here John Turner
Was cast away
In a heavy snow
Storm in the night
In or about the year
1755
The print of a woman's shoe
Was found by his side
Where he lay dead
If you are interested, there is a novel based on the story behind this stone. It is by Alan Garner and called "Thursbitch"
This was probably "Mellors Gardens" the gardens laid out by one James Mellor in the 19th century and based on the book "The Pilgrim's Progress". It is or was in Rainow in Cheshire and I used to live more or less next door to it. I'm not sure if the new owners have kept it going as the Pilgrim's Progress garden and it only used to be open to the public once or twice a year.
James Mellor was an eccentric inventor and preacher and, apart from laying out the garden, did a lot of stone carving. He set up a marker stone in the wilds of the hills above Rainow to commemorate the death of a man in a snowstorm. The inscription reads:
Here John Turner
Was cast away
In a heavy snow
Storm in the night
In or about the year
1755
The print of a woman's shoe
Was found by his side
Where he lay dead
If you are interested, there is a novel based on the story behind this stone. It is by Alan Garner and called "Thursbitch"
This was probably "Mellors Gardens" the gardens laid out by one James Mellor in the 19th century and based on the book "The Pilgrim's Progress". It is or was in Rainow in Cheshire and I used to live more or less next door to it. I'm not sure if the new owners have kept it going as the Pilgrim's Progress garden and it only used to be open to the public once or twice a year.
James Mellor was an eccentric inventor and preacher and, apart from laying out the garden, did a lot of stone carving. He set up a marker stone in the wilds of the hills above Rainow to commemorate the death of a man in a snowstorm. The inscription reads:
Here John Turner
Was cast away
In a heavy snow
Storm in the night
In or about the year
1755
The print of a woman's shoe
Was found by his side
Where he lay dead
If you are interested, there is a novel based on the story behind this stone. It is by Alan Garner and called "Thursbitch"