The Cop

Down on Sealand Road, by the River Dee, is an area of land known as The Cop. Once upon a time there was a warehouse here,  used for exporting Cheshire cheese - 7,000 tons of cheese were exported to London each year in the late 18th century. It now has a children's playground and a graffiti wall on it, but, if you look carefully at the top edge of the green area in the photo below, you can see a raised bank. This is known as the Bund, and is the defence against flooding, should the river overflow its' banks. Not for nothing is the road called Sealand...

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