The surrounding countryside

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Popular rambling area through steep sided wooded valleys and moorland following the course of the Cheesden Brook from its source near Knowl Hill above Norden, historic mill reamains and varied flora and fauna.

This thickly wooded moorland valley with its cascading waterfalls and spectacular viaduct is now a well known nature reserve with its own Visitor Centre and warden. There is extensive flora and fauna and the remains of several ruined watermills and weirs.

This old coaching inn, situated on the former Chester to York highway is the earliest recorded inn in Middleton. A stone lintel in the cellar is dated 1632.
The building forms part of a row of ancient cottages. Legend has it that a secret tunnel links the inn with the parish church standing on the hill opposite, but no trace has ever been found