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Description: About the Roaches Peak District, Walks, History, Wallabies, Where to Stay and Eat
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The Roaches where Buzzards fly and Wallabies may still roam. The Roaches (or Roches) is a wind-carved outcrop of gritstone rocks straddling the parishes of Leekfrith and Heathylee in the Peak District National Park about 4 miles north of Leek, Staffordshire and 8 miles south of Buxton, Derbyshire. See Google Earth image and Find us
A SIGHTING OF A WALLABY AT WINCLE on 16 Sept 2017 with a photo!! more 3,500 year old urn found buried on the Roaches more Ye Olde Rock Inn at Upper Hulme is open again, Wednesdays to Sundays 12-00 - 23-00hrs The name Roaches has evolved recently from 'Roches' as the area used to be known only 100 years (or less) ago. 'Roches' is the french word for rocks.
The Roaches area includes Hen Cloud, so named perhaps because with a little imagination it looks like a roosting hen. The name could also have been derived from the Anglo -Saxon 'Henge Clud' meaning steep cliff. Also Ramshaw Rocks which includes the weird rock formation called the Winking Man .
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