Qualla: Delamere Forest https://qualla.com/delamere-forest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/n/delamere-forest-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Delamere Forest https://qualla.com/delamere-forest Delamere Forest: Introduction https://qualla.com/delamere-forest/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name means forest of the lakes, and the lakes here are kettle holes - pockets of meltwater left behind when the Irish Sea Icesheet retreated north out of Cheshire roughly twenty thousand years ago. Delamere Forest spreads across 972 hectares of central Cheshire, the largest single area of woodland in the county, and it has been three different things over its long life: a Norman hunting reserve where killing a deer could cost you your eyes, a Forestry Commission timber plantation, and the recreational forest of today, where Britain's largest Go Ape course swings between the conifers and music festivals fill the meadows in summer.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/n/delamere-forest-wp/gcqn-delamere-forest-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Delamere Forest: When Killing a Deer Cost Your Eyes https://qualla.com/delamere-forest/ Photo credit Espresso Addict, CC BY-SA 3.0. The twin medieval forests of Mara and Mondrem were established within the county palatine of Cheshire by the Norman Earls of Chester in the late eleventh century. The area may already have been an Anglo-Saxon hunting ground; the Normans simply formalised the cruelty. Game include...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/n/delamere-forest-wp/gcqn-delamere-forest-when-killing-a-deer-cost-your-eyes.mp3 0:06 2 full Delamere Forest: Blakemere, Drained and Restored https://qualla.com/delamere-forest/ Photo credit Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0. Blakemere Moss has the best story in Delamere. It was a glacial lake to start with, formed in two adjacent kettle holes, but around 1815 someone decided it would be more useful as farmland and drained it - reportedly using prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars, although the document...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/n/delamere-forest-wp/gcqn-delamere-forest-blakemere-drained-and-restored.mp3 0:06 3 full Delamere Forest: Thirteen Counties from a Trig Point https://qualla.com/delamere-forest/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. The summit of the forest is Pale Heights, a modest 176 metres but high enough, on a clear day, to give views across thirteen English counties and Welsh principal areas: Cheshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Shropshire, and Staffordshire in Eng...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/n/delamere-forest-wp/gcqn-delamere-forest-thirteen-counties-from-a-trig-point.mp3 0:06 4 full Delamere Forest: Zip Lines and Open-Air Theatre https://qualla.com/delamere-forest/ Photo credit The original uploader was Espresso Addict at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5. Modern Delamere is loud during good weather. Britain's largest Go Ape facility opened in the forest in 2006, suspending zip wires, Tarzan swings, tightropes, and nets between the upper branches of the older pines. The northern Hellrunner cross-country race brings runners flounder...

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