{"id":10360,"date":"2025-10-24T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10360"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:02:35","slug":"may-photos-downs-bank-and-biddulph-grange-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10360","title":{"rendered":"May Photos: Downs Bank and Biddulph Grange Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been catching up with my processing of photos taken earlier this year. For this post I am showing some springtime photos taken in May at Downs Bank and Biddulph Grange Gardens; both National Trust properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downs Banks is a hillside woodland with pleasant paths, some steep and gravelly, through the woods and lovely views across the adjacent farmland:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A woodland path at Downs Bank with exposed tree roots creating trip hazards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A panoramic view across the farmland adjacent to Downs Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A long ‘dead hedge’ at Downs Bank – these are getting quite common at many places we visit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another woodland path at Downs Bank – I think this is quite an atmospheric view showing the accessibility and quite beauty of the place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is interesting to compare the paths at Downs Bank (above) with the paths at Biddulph Grange (below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biddulph Grange Gardens is part of an old Country Estate. Most of the grange building is private apartments (leaving a few places for tea rooms, offices etc.) with land outside the gardens being a country park managed by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. We just visited the gardens:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the Grange from the long path of Wellingtonia Avenue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely pink tulips in the garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A view of the Cheshire Cottage from the path through the Pinetum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Chinese-style bridge over the pond by the Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two pleasant places that we regularly visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been catching up with my processing of photos taken earlier this year. For this post I am showing some springtime photos taken in May at Downs Bank and Biddulph Grange Gardens; both National Trust properties. Downs Banks is a hillside woodland with pleasant paths, some steep and gravelly, through the woods and lovely … Continue reading “May Photos: Downs Bank and Biddulph Grange Gardens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52,102,11,96,71,3,87,97,94,147,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden","category-historic-houses-and-gardens","category-landscape","category-national-trust","category-panoramas","category-photography","category-rural","category-spring","category-staffordshire","category-travel","category-woodland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}