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Peak District Towns and Villages: Wildboarclough

An index to Peak District towns and villages including Wildboarclough, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Leek, Matlock, Macclesfield and Wirksworth in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, England, UK.
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Wildboarclough

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Wildboarclough former Post Office
Wildboarclough former Post Office
Wildboarclough's claim to fame is as the place where the last wild boar in England was killed. The village is now a quiet backwater, popular with visitors at weekends. The large house of Crag Hall is the country seat of Lord Derby, and there was once a carpet mill which used Clough Brook to power its machinery. The mill was largely demolished but the administration block remains, a fine building which once had the strange distinction of being the largest sub-post office in England. Below the mill the bridge over Clough Brook bears a commemorative plaque to the flash flood of 1989, which drowned a motorist in his car here.

On the road below the main village there is the Crag Inn, a pub which is much frequented by the walkers who come to ascend Shutlingsloe, the 'Matterhorn of Cheshire' - a shapely conical peak which rises steeply to the west of the village. Though Shutlingsloe looks impressive from the valley of Clough Brook, at 506 metres it's really little more than a pimple, but it provides a stiff climb to the summit.

Nearby Places of Interest

Lud's ChurchLud's Church is natural rock cleft near Gradbach, Staffordshire. It was once a worshipping place for Lollards and inspired the poem 'Gawain and the Green Knight'
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