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The Roaches, Peak District
Sat, 19 Apr
|Lay-by opposite tea rooms
14km, estimated 6 hours duration, 705m of ascent. This long escarpment in the Staffordshire Moorlands is a wonderful gritstone playground. And there's a dark ravine to explore too...
Time & Location
19 Apr 2025, 10:30 – 16:30
Lay-by opposite tea rooms, Paddock Farm, Roach Road, Upper Hulme, Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands ST13 8TY, UK
About the event
The airy gritstone crest known as The Roaches forms an imposing bastion on the south-western fringe of the Peak District. Â Look sout from the ridge and you'll see jigsaws of bright green pasture around Tittesworth Reservoir. Â Turn north and there are bleak moors, dark valleys and more than a few shady legends.
The Staffordshire Moorlands are the forgotten corner of the National Park, and this windblown landscape is scattered with place names which might have grown striaght out of the ground: Gradbach, Goldstitch Moss and Green Gutter Head; Wincle, Wilson Knowl and Wicken Walls.
Under a cover of snow, the outcrops and buttresses on The Roaches are transformed into a wintry sculpture park and, to the north, the perky little peak of Shutlingsloe becomes a mini-Matterhorn.  Each side of the secretive chasm at Lud's Church, hidden in the woods above the marmite-coloured River Dane, will now be draped with long…
Tickets
Casual Hiker
Please book to secure your place (limited to 20 spaces), and so we know who to wait for before we set off.
Goes on sale: 19 Feb 2025, 06:00£0.00
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