Welcombe Hills

It's been a bit of a miserable day weather-wise, eventually turning to rain this afternoon.   We had driven out to The Farm and it started raining whilst we were on our walk before coffee.  So we turned back and came home for a drink.

Whilst we were out I took a couple of shots of the Welcombe Hills Obelisk, it is about two miles from where we were on the path, towering above the trees, a local landmark which happens to be the theme for today's Mono Monday hosted by Jensphotos.  

The monument was built in 1876 by Robert Needham Pillips to honour his brother Mark Phillips.  Mark Phillips was the son of a northern industrialist who bought, and rebuilt, Welcombe Manor which is now a hotel.  Phillips was an English Liberal politician and one of the first pair of Members of Parliament for Manchester after the Great Reform Act of 1832.  He died at Welcombe House in 1873, age 73.  Further info can be found at the following URL.

Ref: https://www.thewelcombehills.co.uk/the-obelisk-monument/