Mellor Maps - The website of the Walking Map of Mellor, near Marple, Stockport, Cheshire. Includes many photographs of the village of Mellor, details of the Walking Map and how to obtain a copy.
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-- Buddha Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Such is life.
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