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- A Druids altar at Ludchurch?
- Hob Thirst Cave.
- Magpie Mine.
- Possibly the best Bookshop in Derbyshire?
- The Blue Lagoon – Harpur Hill.
- The Buxton Boot Tree.
- The Quiet Woman.
- The Shawbury Incident.
- About
- Lollards
- The Green Chapel
- A Victorian tourist attraction
- Trafford’s Leap
- Ludchurch Cave
- Tours
- Gallery
- Places of other local interest.
- A haunted road and a suit of gold armour.
- A Rediscovered Treasure?
- A Sacrificial stone in the Coombes Valley?
- A Waterspout over Morridge?
- An Abandoned Tank.
- Ancient Pathway Alignment?
- Ashley church inception.
- Beech Caves.
- Beware of disturbing the Bridestones!
- Biddulph Old Hall
- Bradshaw farm, Ladymeadows and Fairies.
- Buglawton – ghost town and ghost river?
- Cave farm & Mine shafts
- Close Encounters of the Fairy Kind.
- Cluelow Cross
- Clues to a Buried Treasure in Leek.
- Coombes Valley and the Gardner’s Stone.
- Dieulacresse Abbey
- Doug Moller “Lord of the Roaches.”
- Doxy’s Pool – The Roaches
- Escape from Bloreheath.
- Fertility Shafts?
- Folly Mill
- Gawtons Well
- Gradbach and a rediscovered Tunnel.
- Gun Hill
- Hindley, Brady, the Serpent Stone & Ramshaw Rocks.
- Hybrid Animal – Coombes Valley?
- In search of a secret tunnel.
- In Search of the Indefont Well.
- John Nadens Ghost
- Keele University – Man, Myths & Monsters.
- Ladydale Well.
- Ladymeadows
- Leek Tourist Information Centre
- Local fortune in gold?
- Ludwell.
- Macclesfield Castle and its undiscovered tunnels?
- Madeley Old Hall.
- Meg Lane Forgers.
- Merryton Low
- Mixon Mine Fairies
- Morridge Moor
- Mow Cop tunnel & tramway.
- Murderers of Morridge Moor
- Mysterious Helicopter?
- Mysterious Stone Heads.
- Mysterious Stone Unearthed.
- Mystery at Meerbrook?
- Mystery Big Cat of Morridge Moor
- Oak Grove – portal to another world?
- Oddities on the Roaches
- Offset Church Clock
- Ogham Boulder?
- Old Hag & Turners Pool
- Oliver Cromwell’s armoury.
- Panther sightings in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
- Place names in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
- Places to eat in the Staffordshire Moorlands
- Return to the Coombes Valley
- Rock Hall cottage – The Roaches
- Rushton Church
- Rushton Church Grave robbers?
- Rushton Spencer Well
- Shakes on the Rocks.
- Solomon’s Hollow
- Spirit Rapping at Butterton.
- Spirithole Woods & the Horsley Stone
- St Edwards Secret Tunnels?
- Staffordshire Oddities and Facts.
- Survivor of the Cold War.
- The Ashbourne Circle.
- The Baalstone
- The Bawdstone
- The Beast of Bache Pool.
- The Bleeding Wolf.
- The Blore Resurrection.
- The Bullstones
- The Cannibals of Gradbach
- The Creature of Astbury mere
- The Dagger & Axe
- The Disappearing River.
- The Eagle & Child
- The Garrotting Stone.
- The Gawton Stone.
- The Hanging Stone.
- The Headless Horseman of Butterton Moor
- The Horsley Stone Alignment.
- The Ipstones Sun Temple?
- The Kidsgrove Hauntings.
- The Legend of the High Shutt Tree.
- The Mermaid of Blakemere
- The Ochre Stream
- The Old Leek road
- The Padfoot
- The Phantom Airmen of Birchenough Hill
- The Ramsdell Hall ghost.
- The Roaches – Land of the Rush
- The Roaches-Circle within a Circle
- The Saracens of Biddulph Moor
- The Ship Inn at Wincle
- The Trafford Connection
- The Wandering Horseman.
- The Wandering Jew.
- The Winking Man
- The Wishing Tree – Dovedale valley.
- The Witch of Getliffe Yard.
- The Yew Tree Pub (Cauldon Low).
- Three Shires Head
- Throwley Hall
- Tom’s Skin.
- UFO Landing at Ipstones, Staffordshire?
- Wallabies on the Roaches.
- Waterfall Low.
- Werewolves in Staffordshire?
- Wildboarclough or Wildboreclough?
- Witchcraft in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
- Land Of The Giants?
- St Edwards Secret Tunnel
- Places of interest in Cheshire
- Alderley Edge- The Golden Stone
- Alderley Edge-King Arthur
- Alderley Edge-The Black Crossroads
- Alderley Edge-The Wizards Well
- Anderton Boat Lift.
- Astbury Church – Beating the Bounds.
- Astbury Church Anomalies.
- Astbury Longshoots.
- Astbury’s Longshoots
- Astbury’s Undiscovered Tunnel?
- Big Fenton
- Capesthorne Hall
- Colley Mill & the Doddyman
- Drummers Knoll.
- Fools Nook
- Goodwins Pool
- Hag stones of Hillmoor
- Haunted places in Cheshire
- Havannah – The Deserted Village
- Hillmoor Farm & Horse Whispering
- Hugh’s or Hugs Bridge
- Image House – Bunbury.
- In search of the Apostle Stone.
- Inspiration for Alice in Wonderland?
- Into the valley of the Demon.
- Jenkin’s Chapel.
- John Turners Death
- Knight-ley.
- Lady Warbutons walk
- Lindow Man
- Little Girl Lost.
- Little Moreton Hall
- Local Oddities.
- M6 Motorway: The Taker of Life.
- Macclesfield Encounter.
- Mad Allen’s Cave.
- Manifestations in Milk Street.
- Marton Church
- Old Ghost Sightings-Smallwood (Cheshire).
- Pexhill Road
- Priesty Fields
- Samuel (Maggotty) Johnson
- Sandbach
- Secret Nuclear Bunker.
- Sheela-na-gig’s
- Shutlingsloe.
- Spurstow Spa.
- St Luke’s secrets (Holmes Chapel).
- St Oswald’s Hand – Lower Peover.
- Strange Sealed Chamber.
- Strange Synchronicity.
- Straw Wars.
- The Asrai.
- The Astbury Yew
- The Bears Head – Brereton
- The Bloody Bones Cave.
- The Bridestones
- The Butley Ash Incident.
- The Butter Cross & Plague Stone
- The Catstones
- The Cloud
- The Congleton Lighthouse.
- The Congleton Steamboat
- The Cursed Skull of Tunstead Farm.
- The Floating Island
- The Hanging Gate Pub.
- The Healing waters of Ramsdell Hall.
- The Hidden Lake.
- The Highwayman’s Hoard.
- The Highwayman’s House.
- The Howling House.
- The Jantex ghost.
- The Largest Sub Post Office in the U.K?
- The legend of Bagmere pool.
- The Lion & Swan
- The Marton Oak
- The Old Great Track
- The Staring Woman.
- The Treasure of Priesty Fields.
- The Tree of Imagination.
- The Viking Ship?
- The Wagon & Horses Disturbance
- The Wishing Steps
- Traditions & Customs of the Three Shires.
- Tuatha De Danaan (Fairy Folk)?
- White Nancy.
- William Buckley
- Winsford Flashes.
- Accommodation in Cheshire
- Places further afield
- A Staffordshire Witch
- A Strange Golf Course
- Anchor Church.
- Arbor Low & Gib Hill.
- Beeston Castle & buried treasure
- Buried Alive?
- Celtic Stone Head Cult?
- Coombes Valley (Hell Hole?).
- Coombes Valley Massacre?
- Corpse Paths.
- Crank Caverns.
- Cratcliffe Hermitage.
- Delamere Forest Anomalies.
- Derbyshire’s UFO Hot Spot.
- Devil’s Bridge.
- Dick Whittington.
- Eldon Hole.
- Erwood Hall Shrine.
- Friar Tuck’s Chapel?
- Ghost Bombers
- Ghosts and Legends of the Norfolk Broads.
- Guinevere’s birthplace under threat.
- Harper Hill Tunnels.
- Harper Hill’s unusual test site.
- Into the valley of the Dove.
- Ippikin’s Treasure
- Is this the body of a Devil Dog?
- King Arthur & the shropshire connection
- King Arthur and Excalibur’s last resting place?
- Leyland’s Legendary creature.
- Llynclys Lake Legend
- Malta – teaser selection.
- Malta’s Sodom and Gomorah.
- Manifold’s Underground Lake.
- Matlock’s Growing Rocks.
- Matlock’s Growing Rocks.
- Murder at Crowhalt?
- Mysterious Mutilations?
- Mysterious Stone Unearthed.
- Nine foot Giant.
- Nine Ladies Standing Stones.
- Peveril Castle & Robin Hood.
- Plasma based intelligence in the Dovedale valley & beyond?
- Pterodactyl Sightings?
- Pub / Church combination!
- Pulsing Ley-Lines?
- Robin & Marion’s Yew tree?
- Robin Hood & Little John
- Rock-a-Bye Baby’s Tree.
- Rostherne Church & Mere
- Rowtor Rocks.
- Sharpcliffe Hall.
- Shropshire’s Robin Hood
- Solomon’s Temple.
- Spirit Lights
- St Annes Well – Buxton.
- St Bertram’s Well
- Stocks & Chairs.
- Strangeness on Cannock Chase.
- Swarkestone Bridge.
- The Boggart Stone
- The Buxton Mermaid.
- The Camera Obscura.
- The Cannock Crocodile.
- The Chained Oak
- The Creature of Ogston Reservoir.
- The Devils Chapel.
- The Disappearing Village.
- The Fauld Explosion
- The Grail in Shropshire?
- The Grail Trail
- The Hanging Bridge.
- The Hayfield Phenomenon.
- The Hopestone.
- The Horsley Stone legend revealed.
- The Kingdom of Manannan
- The Last Resting Place of Clive of India.
- The Legend of Ellesmere Lake
- The life and times of John Mytton.
- The Lumsdale Valley.
- The Most Haunted House in England?
- The Nanteos Cup.
- The Plague Village.
- The River Derwent
- The Robbers Grave.
- The Shipwreck Church.
- The Stiperstones
- The Teetotal Terrace.
- The Terret
- The Walking Tree.
- The wild man of Sutton park.
- The Witches of Bakewell.
- Thimble Hall.
- Tideswell.
- Titan.
- Treasure Island?
- Tufa Cottage.
- U.F.O Test Site?
- Unidentified Sea Creature – Barmouth.
- Unknown creature – Bala lake.
- Unknown Creature – Lytham St Anne’s.
- Unusual activity – St Wystan’s church, Repton.
- Viroconium or Camelot?
- Winnat’s Pass
- Blue John Mine.
- Gawsworth Hall.
- Hack Green Secret Bunker.
- Identifying Gawain.
- Little Moreton Hall.
- Peak Cavern.
- Pooles Cavern.
- Speedwell Cavern.
- The Green Dragon Mysteries Society.
ludchurch 
Hello Ludchurch, your posts on Blake Mere are v interested. We (two of us) swam a lap of the Mere last Fridy (9 August 2013) – the only ‘mere-maid’ that day was me!
[…] Sooze: ‘Picked #259 from the Wild Swimming (by Daniel Start) book Kiz gave me. This is Blake Mere between Leek and Buxton in the Peak District. The book did say it was ‘tiny’. What it didn’t say was that it’s essentially a bog. I swam a lap anyway (no, not snorkelling). (The bench in the photo commemorates 50 years of the Ranger Service. The etching reads: ‘In the summer at Mermaid Pool As the grass grows all around I think I sometimes hear her sing For the mermaid’s home I’ve found. Poem by Harriet Burn’) (Links: About Blake Mere’s mermaid More about Blake Mere) […]