Photography Walk at Shugborough

A very damp but interesting walk with expert photographer this morning around Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, the one time home of Patrick Lichfield.  This is the Chinese House and the Red Bridge.  I think the estate (National Trust) could be a good place for a blip meet.  Lots to see around the estate and i didn't even get into the house.  

The extra is a view of Essex Bridge which spans the Trent just after its confluence with the Sow which flows through the estate.

Some information about that follows:
Essex Bridge (grid reference SJ995225) is a Grade I listed[1] packhorse bridge over the River Trent near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England.
Spanning the Trent 100 metres downstream of its confluence with the River Sow, it was built in the late sixteenth century by the Earl of Essex a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. The Earl lived nearby at Chartley Castle. It is now the longest remaining packhorse bridge in England with fourteen of its original forty round span arches left,[2]:129 and has been described as "perhaps the least altered old bridge in the county"[1]
The bridge carries the long-distance footpath The Staffordshire Way over the River Trent, linking the Trent and Mersey Canal tow-path with the bridleway through the Shugborough estate to Cannock Chase.
The bridge is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[3] (Wikipedia)