Staffordshire way - Tinkers Castle Ridge, to Seisdon.

Marked on the map as a sandpit, this was a great big quarry

The cliffs were about 60 feet high

 I had been looking forward to the views from Tinkers Castle Ridge, on the road that everyone calls "The Rabbit Run" from Dudley towards Telford. But actually, you can't see anything towards Shropshire from the path as the trees are too leafy! Drivers get the best view!

But looking towards the Black Country, you can see Eve Hill flats on the horizon (near where I used to work)...

...and the skyline of Wolverhampton 

At the end of the ridge is the house from which it gets its name. On the maps, it is called Abbots Castle Ridge. But I have only ever heard it as Tinkers Castle

 The wheelie bin waiting outside displays the Staffordshire knot

 On towards Seisdon, down Post Office Road...

...the houses are mostly modern, but spacious.

This group of garden gnomes wolf whistles as you walk past!

 The Postman on his rounds, fittingly, as this is still Post Office Road.

 View over Smestow Brook

The Victorian post box set into the wall. Just emptied by the postman

 Some lovely late-blooming flowers