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The Roaches

Keep your eyes peeled! The hope is that a few have survived and that they are beginning to re-populate. However there have been several sightings in the last year or so across quite a wide area of the Peak District, some say that the last survivors disappeared in the 1990s. They managed to breed and survive, however the story seemed plausible - released in World War II from a nearby private zoo. I was never sure if this was a yarn my father span - why would these marsupials more commonly associated with Australia be in the Peak District? I remember the name from my childhood when I was told that wallabies roamed these desolate moors. Popular with walkers and climbers alike, the Roaches are one of the many rocky outcrops in the Peak District National Park.

Pugin's Gem

His creation was his own tribute to inner peace and serenity and a design wonder of the Gothic Revival. Was asked to design and build a church which would have no rival, who helped Charles Barry with the design of the Houses of Parliament, pugin. Just over 150 years ago, who lived at nearby Alton Towers, the architect Augustus Pugin was commissioned to build St Giles by the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury. Commonly referred to as 'Pugin's Gem', giles Catholic Church. The small market town of Cheadle - not to be confused with the town of the same name in Cheshire - is best known for St.

Rudyard Lake

It is easy to see why they felt that way about it. Gave its name to Rudyard Kipling whose parents first met at a party by its shores and had such a particular love for it that they named their child after it, so the story goes, the lake. Came to Rudyard Lake to repeat his achievement, fresh from his feat of crossing Niagara Falls on the high wire, blondin, even the great trapeze artist. It was an extremely popular day-out from the nearby industrial areas in Victorian times. Boating and sailing as well as a narrow-gauge steam railway which runs alongside the east shore, cycling, today it is a popular location as it offers walking. Rudyard Lake is a two-mile long lake superbly situated in a steep wooded valley.

Biddulph Grange Gardens

Arguably England's finest timber-framed manor house, and whilst you're in the area don't miss Little Moreton Hall. It features an imitation of the Great Wall of China and the Egyptian Court, designed in the mid-19th century as a series of connecting 'compartments'. It is the product of an extraordinary imagination and a wonder to behold. With many surprising features, biddulph Grange Gardens is one of Britain's most unusual gardens.

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

Perform their dance to music provided by a melodeon player at locations throughout the village and its surrounding farms and pubs, bowman and Maid Marian, hobby Horse, a Fool, the Horn Dancers comprising six Deer-men, after collecting the horns from the church at eight o'clock in the morning. Performed annually in September, a tradition going back to medieval times, it is famous for the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance. Abbot's Bromley is an attractive village with an ancient church and several half-timbered buildings.