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Mow Cop Castle

Mow Cop, Staffordshire–Cheshire border

A ruin that was built as a ruin, on a hill where a church was born.

Mow Cop Castle was built in 1754 as a summer house made to look like a ruined castle, so it has never been anything but a ruin. In 1807 a huge open-air prayer meeting on this hill led to the founding of the Primitive Methodist church.

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When
Built 1754
Where
53.1130, -2.2140
Group
Towers & follies

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