Farms And Ferraris

There is change afoot in Chelford, but this month’s walk takes HOWARD BRADBURY through some landscapes of timeless beauty.

- Howard Bradbury

STROLLING through Chelford, I glimpse a couple of heavily-laden tractors waiting at a junction while a sleek orange Lamborghini rumbles by.

Had I been quicker with the camera, I could have snapped a rather telling image of life in rural Cheshire. There are farms...and there are Ferraris, livestock and Lamborghinis.

Chelford is one Cheshire village where the county’s farming heritage is more obvious than most. But it’s a little less obvious now than it was in the very recent past. The livestock market on March 30 was the last, the end of a tradition stretching back more than a century.

Wright Marshall auctioneers’ are moving the Chelford business to their other centre at Beeston, the firm expressing ‘bitter disappointment’ that their lease in Chelford is up. A planning application for housing on the market site is expected.