Cliffe Park Avenue, Rudyard
View of the road leading to Cliffe Park Hall, looking onto the lake. The Hall was built in 1811 by John Haworth at the cost of about £25,000. In 1831 the house passed to Fanny Bostock, the first cousin ...
Clifton Ponds and Coneyberry Well, Clifton Campville
Two boys collect water from Coneyberry Well at Clifton Ponds, Clifton Campville. The well and ponds now form part of The Coneyberry Millennium Green, an 8 acre open space for the public. It was set ...
Colt's-foot or Tussilago farfara
Colt's-foot is a common perennial of waste ground and derelict areas. Its flowers develop before its leaves do.
Flowering between March and April, it can grow to a height of 25cm.
This example was ...
Common Centaury or centaurium erythaea
Common Centaury is an annual that frequents dry banks, wood clearings, gravel pits and other open places on sandstone heaths.
Flowering between June and October, it can grow to a height of 15cm.
This ...
Common Cottongrass or eriophorum angustifolium
Common Cottongrass is a perennnial abundant in wet places on the moors. It differs from the hare's-tail cottongrass by having more than one flowering head.
Flowering between May and June, and fruiting ...
Cop Mere Pool,
This nature reserve covers a 45 acre area.
The lake was formed in the Ice Age and is fed by the River Sow.
Cop Mere, near Eccleshall
A postcard view of Cop Mere, which is a natural, shallow lake formed following the retreat of ice after the last Ice Age, about 11,700 years ago, and is fed by the River Sow. The lake is a nature reserve ...
Copmere, Eccleshall
A view of Copmere looking west from the sluice gate on the River Sow at its exit. Copmere is one of the largest natural lakes in Staffordshire and is about four acres in area.
A postcard view published ...
Cowberry, or Vaccinium vitisidaea
You can spot this evergreen shrub on acid heaths and moors.
Flowering in pink or white between May and August, it can grow up to 30cm in height.
This example was found growing at Camp Hills near ...
Cowberry, or Vaccinium vitisidaea
An evergreen shrub of acid heaths and moors.
Its pink or white flowers are on display between May and August, and it produces fruit between August and October.
The cowberry can grow up to 30cm in ...
Cowslip, or Primula veris
This perennial plant appears often on limestone hillsides.
It will frequently hybridise with a primrose, producing an Oxslip.
Flowering between April and May, it can grow up to 30cm in height.
This ...
Cox's Farm, Hammerwich
Cox's Farm, Hall Lane, Hammerwich, little changed today. The farm and pond formed part of the estate of Hammerwich Place Farm. Harry Cox bought the farm in 1920 and farmed there until the later 1930s. ...
Cox's Pond, Hammerwich
Cox's Pond and Farm House formed part of the estate of Hammerwich Place Farm on Hall Lane. Harry Cox bought the farm in 1920 and farmed there until the later 1930s.
Postcard photographed and published ...
Cox's Pond, Hammerwich
Cox's Pond and Station Road, Hammerwich, little changed today. This pond formed part of the estate of Hammerwich Place Farm. Harry Cox bought the farm in 1920 and farmed there until the later 1930s. ...
Cox's Pond, Hammerwich
This pond formed part of the estate of Hammerwich Place Farm. Harry Cox bought the farm in 1920 and farmed there until the later 1930s.
Crakemarsh Hall and Lake, near Uttoxeter
Crakemarsh Hall viewed from the south across the lake.
Crakemarsh Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1815 for Sir Thomas Cotton Sheppard around the staircase of a late 17th century house. It passed to ...
Dandelion or taraxacum officinale
Dandelion is a very common perennial of roadsides and fields. It is a weed of lawns. There are many similar species of Dandelion. The flowers only open in full sunlight.
Flowering between March and ...
Darlaston. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including woodland and lake. Taken at Darlaston, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.