The Roaches are a prominent rocky ridge on the Cheshire side of the Peak District National Park
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Setting off from Wincle village by the River Dane
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The River Dane with Staffordshire left bank
and Cheshire right bank
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| Baa Baa Black Sheep..... |
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The appropriately named Hangingstone Farm
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The first destination - Lud's Church - then The Roaches
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Lud's Church is actually an impressive chasm
on the side of The Roaches
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The less fit start from a car park half way up!
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Looking west to the Cheshire Plain with 'The Cloud' (the distant hill) and Congleton beneath it
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Some of the rocky outcrops on the ridge
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Shutingsloe conical hill on the distant right
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Jodrell Bank radio telescope
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Looking south along the ridge to Tittesworth reservoir
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Back to the car by the River Dane
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