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Entering The Three Stags Heads at Wardlow Mires you take a step backwards in time. This is a pub for connoisseurs, where beer reigns supreme and behind the bar is a simple sign "Please do not ask for lager, as a smack in the face often offends!" Rough justice indeed and just down the valley lies Peter's Stone where, in 1815, a local murderer was executed and his body left dangling from a gibbet. But the reason we come every Spring to Cressbrook Dale is for the orchids - one of the finest displays in the Peak District.
 LOCATION: Eight miles east of Chapel-en-le-Frith START: A623 layby, Wardlow Mires, just before B6465 junction (Grid reference SK179756) DISTANCE: Four and a half miles GRADE: Moderate TIME: Three hours MAP: Explorer OL - White Peak Landranger 119 REFRESHMENTS: Bull's Head, Three Stags Heads & Mires Cafe |
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