Approximate Location
OS Grid Reference: SJ 84785 73977
Latitude / Longitude: 53°15′45″N , 002°13′46″W
The Bagbrook rises to the north-east of Monk’s Heath below Fernhill and Birtles Hall, and then flows south-west across the Cheshire landscape. In Weirdstone, Chapter 17 – Mara, the fugitives used the wooded cover of the stream, from Dumville’s Plantation and the bridge under the Chelford Road up to the bridge under the Congleton Road and a tributary flowing in from the Capesthorne Game Covert, so as to avoid the busy crossroads at Monk’s Heath. It was t the beginning of this stretch of the journey that they hatched a plan to use the cover of woodlands and streams to reach Shuttlingslow.