Flash
Flash is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands and the Peak District National Park, England. At 1,519 feet above sea level, it is the highest village in the United Kingdom. Flash was an early centre for Wesleyanism.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Staffordshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Flash, Staffordshire” and “Quarnford”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Weslyan Chapel and Oliver Hill.
Weslyan Chapel
Residential building
Photo: Gammock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weslyan Chapel is a residential building.
Oliver Hill
Peak
Photo: Roger Brooks, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oliver Hill is a hill, 513 metres high, in the Peak District in the county of Staffordshire in England. It is a treeless summit surrounded by farmland in the southern part of the Peak District about 6 kilometres south-southwest of the town of Buxton.
Axe Edge Moor
Peak
Photo: Dave Dunford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland southwest of Buxton in the Peak District, England. It is mainly gritstone. Its highest point is at grid reference SK035706. Axe Edge Moor is situated 2 miles north of Flash.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Three Shire Heads and Hollinsclough.
Three Shire Heads
Locality
Three Shire Heads is the tripoint on Axe Edge Moor where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet, at UK grid reference SK009685, or. It is on the River Dane, which marks the Cheshire border in this area.
Hollinsclough
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hollinsclough is a small rural village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is within the Peak District National Park. Hollinsclough is situated 2½ miles east of Flash.
Wildboarclough
Hamlet
Photo: Pete Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wildboarclough is a village in the Macclesfield Forest, in the civil parish of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, in the Cheshire East district of Cheshire, England, within the Peak District National Park. Wildboarclough is situated 2½ miles west of Flash.
Flash
- Category: locality
- Location: Quarnford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.20218° or 53° 12′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.96409° or 1° 57′ 51″ westElevation
1,522 feet (464 metres)Open location code
9C5W622P+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 298275485OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Flash” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Flash, Staffordshire”
- French: “Flash”
- Irish: “Flash”
- Polish: “Flash (Staffordshire)”
- Polish: “Flash”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include St Paul’s, Quarnford and Northfield Farm Riding and Trekking Centre.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Flash”. Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.