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WITH their manicured lawns and beautifully stocked borders, the residents of Bollington pride themselves on having some of the best kept gardens in Cheshire.
So many were horrified when they awoke to find a herd of 40 dairy cows trampling through their begonias, chomping on their marigolds and, ahem, ‘delivering manure’ on their driveways.
The cattle had escaped from a nearby field and were pictured making themselves at home last Sunday by Janis Wilson.
The 61-year-old grandmother was enjoying an early morning cup of tea when she heard mooing.
‘It was certainly an eye opener’ she said. ‘There were 30 or 40 cows in the street. It was not the sort of thing you’d expect for a Sunday morning.
‘My partner thought it was hilarious. They were grazing around, eating all the plants, brushing past cars and leaving their mess over people’s driveways.’
Miss Wilson and partner Steve Loxam, 61, managed to stop the cows coming down their drive but other residents in the town, which is near Macclesfield, were not so lucky. ‘They did quite a lot of damage,’ said Miss Wilson.
‘From what I heard they did quite a lot of damage to the open plan gardens around the back. One guy was trying to corral them to stop them going to the main road.’
‘There are cows in a field at the bottom of our road but I don’t know if maybe a gate or fence was left open.’
Mr Loxam joined others in moving the cows down the road until police arrived and helped herd them back into their field.