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A look at the mismatched chairs, tables and settles at Mow Cop Inn, where every wobble, repair and scratch carries a local story. Regulars explain why the best seat in the house is rarely the newest one.
Mow Cop sits with one foot in Cheshire and one in Staffordshire, and the county line has a way of creeping into the conversation. Here is what it means to eat, drink and walk the border from the warm side of the hill.
Every pub has a room that does the quiet work. At Mow Cop Inn it is the snug — barely wider than a corridor, low enough to make a tall man apologetic, and warmer than any radiator can explain. Here is the story of the smallest room on the hill.
Mow Cop's skyline is part folly, part pilgrimage site and part pub garden. This is the story of a hill where mock ruins, open-air sermons and a warm welcome have shared the same weather for centuries.