To the south is Morridge, with a trig point at 489 m (1,604 ft)[1] at Merryton Low which provides views across the Cheshire Plain and The Roaches, including Ramshaw Rocks and Hen Cloud.

[2] In 2007 the claim was upheld by the BBC, which settled a dispute with its rival claimant, Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway.

There were also stonemasons, dressmakers, blacksmiths and cordwainers, and a shoemaker, errand boy, wheelwright, game-keeper, grocer, peddler and tailor, as well as a number of house servants, 275 young people and 50 scholars.

The first record of coalmining in the parish comes from 1401 when Thomas Smith took a year's lease on the 'vein coal' of Black Brook, near Upper Hulme.

There was a large number of coal pits in the area, including Orchard Common, Blackclough, Hope, Goldsitch and Knotbury.

[7][failed verification] According to some sources,[8] the counterfeit money manufactured at Flash used to be exchanged at the nearby Three Shire Heads (where Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire meet, and where prizefighting was also said to have taken place).

The church was rebuilt in 1901 to the design by Buxton architect William Radford Bryden and is a Grade II listed building.