Staffordshire - the Roaches and Lud's church.

[meako]

yeah like that a lot-didn't the Luddites smash machinery in the industrial revolution because they lost their jobs? I'm from Notts originally so very interested. The sheep are most likely gathered around a circle of fodder that the farmer threw off the back of a truck -in a circular pattern-.
cheers

 

[Claudiasboris]

Great pics and a nice post, good to see Blighty showing up over here!

The Roaches (and associated bits) are a place that I've always wanted to go to but never got around to as I'm much closer to the Dark Peak. I saw Lud's Church on Countryfile last year and it made my Places To Go list.

Cheers!
Claudiasboris

 

[A.W.U.K.]

yeah like that a lot-didn't the Luddites smash machinery in the industrial revolution because they lost their jobs? I'm from Notts originally so very interested. The sheep are most likely gathered around a circle of fodder that the farmer threw off the back of a truck -in a circular pattern-.
cheers

That sounds like a good explanation! Thank you

 

[Mistwalker]

Thanks Andrew, awesome photos and history lesson as always. I always look forward to your posts, they are like little vacations for me. The ring of sheep was definitely interesting, if you hadn't said they were sheep I might have assumed they were stones.

 

[A.W.U.K.]

When you mentioned Ludd’s Church I thought you were talking about old Ned Ludd; King Ludd. General Ludd. The eponymous leader of the Luddites.

Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood
His Feats I but little admire
I will sing the Achievements of General Ludd
Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire.
Brave Ludd was to measures of violence unused
Till his sufferings became so severe
That at last to defend his own Interest he rous'd
And for the great work did prepare.

The Luddites certainly used to gather in secret places but this is well away from any textile manufacturing areas, which are mostly in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

 

[leinenkugel]

Beautiful pics. Thank you for posting!

 

[newadventure]

Great pictures but an even better story - feel like I was along for the ride! Thanks for sharing Andrew - I love it.
Fred

 

[A.W.U.K.]

Nice looking area. I find it interesting to look at because it's so different from where I live. There's hardly any trees. In my area, you throw a rock, you hit a tree. Thanks for sharing.

It is pretty much a definition of moorland that it is almost devoid of trees. Most of the trees you CAN see are modern plantations.

I like the mix of outdoors and history. I also wonder how long those stone walls have been in those fields.

Since geology is my true love in life, I would definitely have picked up a representative sample of the millstone grit for my collection.

It is quite possible that at least some of the walls are thousands of years old. It is quite hard to move a wall once built and of course some of them define landholding boundaries.

 

[Mannlicher]

thanks for the great pictures. I have always felt the beauty of the UK is in the countryside, not the cities.