Moneystone village in the Staffordshire Moorlands is well-named. For dozens of years, this small hamlet has had quarrying in it and around it. Extraction of minerals meant a livelihood for many.
This strange arrangement at one of its cottages is fascinating. This house abuts a large outcrop of rock at one end, as you can see. I would guess (I'm not sure) that a cave in the rock was once lived in, and the cottage, bit by bit, was built on to it, as a sort of 'extension', till the cottage became bigger than the cave - and the two are now fused together as one.
