[1] The village contains the church of the Good Shepherd and the small hamlet of Wardlow Mires, which contains a notable pub, The Three Stags' Heads.

[5] Black Harry was a highwayman on the turnpike roads who troubled travellers on the moors around Wardlow and Longstone.

The local cobbler, Mr Marsden of Stoney Middleton, confirmed that shoes found at the house of 21-year-old Antony Lingard had been made for Hannah.

A poem by William Newton, which imagined the anguish of the murderer's father having to gaze on this sight, was given much of the credit[9] for the abolition of gibbeting in 1834.

The other more grisly name for Peter's Stone is Gibbet Rock, for it was here that Lingard's body was displayed for the entertainment of visitors for several months.