What on Earth...

...are they doing to the top of Great Hill? Or perhaps more importantly, who is doing what to the top of Great Hill?

I'd seen the damage last week on my usual Wednesday evening outing, but it had been a long day and I'd forgotten all about it by the time I got home. There had been a digger and a tracked truck full of surface scrapings.

On Saturday JtE and I saw that the vehicles had gone, but the "work" was incomplete. Most of the flagging from around the shelter had been taken up, although it seemed to be being replaced in a very similar style to how it had been before. Also the path on the White Coppice side had been scraped out and stones placed nearby, as though to pave it.

One really wonders who decided that this was necessary, and whose money is being used. United Utilities? Perhaps they could have spent the money on improving water supplies to delay the forthcoming hosepipe ban, or if they really wanted to do something for the environment, they could clear the rash of rhododendrons (had to look that one up) that has sprung up round about GR 671 147 on Winter Hill.

Anything known?

We'll have a group viewing on Saturday, can someone bring a camera?

PS ~ Well done SN, as they say, "You've got to be in it, to win it".