The Roaches
The Roaches is a prominent rocky ridge above Leek and Tittesworth Reservoir in the Staffordshire Peak District of England. The ridge with its rock formations rises steeply to 505 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gdr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Doxey Pool and Lud’s Church.
Doxey Pool
Pond
Photo: Dr Duncan Pepper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Roaches is a prominent rocky ridge above Leek and Tittesworth Reservoir in the Staffordshire Peak District of England. The ridge with its rock formations rises steeply to 505 m.
Lud’s Church
Lud's Church is a deep chasm penetrating the Millstone Grit bedrock created by a massive landslip on the hillside above Gradbach, Staffordshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flash and Allgreave.
Flash
Village
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
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.
Allgreave
Village
Photo: Steve Lewin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Allgreave is a village in the civil parishes of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough and Wincle, in the Cheshire East district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
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.
The Roaches
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,657 feet
- Description: hill in Staffordshire, England, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Leekfrith, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.17213° or 53° 10′ 20″ northLongitude
-1.99988° or 1° 59′ 60″ westElevation
1,657 feet (505 metres)Open location code
9C5W52C2+V2OpenStreetMap ID
node 376013453OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
“The Roaches” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “The Roaches”
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