Date:1905 - 1910 (c.)
Description:Cotton Dell is an area of woodland, 160 acres of which was purchased by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust in late 1999. The most notable rock feature in the Dell is Bill's Rock. It is part of local legend having been the scene of a tragedy in the sixteenth century. The daughter of a local landowner, who had been promised in marriage to a local squire, fell in love with a farm worker. The girl's father and the squire accompanied by hounds chased the couple into the Dell. When the lovers reached Bill's Rock they jumped off to their deaths, while the hounds supposedly attacked their pursuers. Another version talks of a certain "Colonel Bill" who, after a night of excess at the local Star Inn in Cotton, chased a fox to his death over rocks into the brook below. Photographer: Alfred McCann, photographers of High Street, Uttoxeter.
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Cotton Dell is an area of woodland, 160 acres of which was purchased by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust ...
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Creators: Mr Gerald McCann - Creator
Image courtesy of: Mrs G.S. McCann
Donor ref:P76_041_09682 (37/45025)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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