Wardlow

An old farming and lead mining village surrounded by exceptional scenery, with cross country paths leading in all directions, through dry and river dales or over lofty limestone hills. Wardlow’s main street joins the A623 at Wardlow Mires, with its gruesome tale of the murder of Hannah Oliver, the Wardlow Mires toll keeper. Her murderer’s body hung in a gibbet here for many years, his bones rattling inside the iron cage in the wind - a very public example if something of a tourist attraction.