Roosdyche
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Roosdyche
Image: © Dave Dunford Taken: 2 Oct 2014
This curious flat-bottomed valley on the hillside above Whaley Bridge, some 750 metres in length, has attracted various explanations. Suggestions that it was a Roman chariot course have been dismissed, with studies in the 1960s suggesting a natural glacial origin. More recent excavations have tentatively suggested Iron Age occupation. It is crossed by footpaths at its northern and southern ends, but the valley itself is private.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.330052
Longitude
-1.977288