The Pylon Horse, Eccles

Today we decided to follow one of the bridleways we had seen on one of our previous walks. We had never walked up it before so it was a bit of an adventure to see where it went. What I've now found out is it is a path between the Culand chalk pits and that either side of the bridleway the ground drops very steeply indeed. This is all screened by bushes and trees but every now and again we could see the cavernous drop on each side.
The pits supplied chalk to the Burham Brick, Lime and Cement Works which were established by William Cubitt in 1860. At it's height it employed over 1,000 men and boys and it even had it's own railway line between the pits themselves, the works and the river Medway (this included a tunnel that was 800m in length). Steam locomotives could haul up to 60 tons of raw material at a time. The last of the pits closed in 1939 and Burham is now a quiet village - you would never imagine it was once the sight of heavy industry.
On the way back home we crossed some fields which had a newly reinstated public footpath through them. This is where I took today's shot of this beautiful horse close to an electricity pylon.
In one of the other fields that the path went through the horse in that section of the field started to follow us. We tried twisting and turning to shake it off but it just did exactly the same. We speeded up a bit but it just speeded up with us. We decided not to run for it just in case we made things worse so we were glad to get over the next style quick smart. It did let us stroke it on the nose afterwards and seemed a bit sad to let us go!
Extra shot is called "Ribbon Tribute". These ribbons were tied around railings at the war memorial in Eccles as a way of paying tribute to all NHS staff.