Lower Peover

St Oswald’s church at Lower Peover is a rarity, a medieval wooden aisled church with a later stone tower. The church was built in the 14th century, all oak supports and beams with wattle and daub filling in the spaces between on the outer walls. No nails or screws, it is all held together by hundreds of wooden pegs. Internally it feels like a huge medieval barn. Grade 1 listed I was lucky. Tomorrow the whole will be surrounded by scaffolding, essential maintenance is required.

Next door is a pub (extra), the Bells of Peover, with a blue plaque added last year. It was in this pub that in the run up to D Day 1944 Generals Patton and Eisenhower met up to discuss final preparations for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy and France.