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The church was built between 1860 and 1862 to designs of the architect George Edmund Street, funded by Sir Thomas Percival Heywood, 2nd Baronet. At the same time, Street also designed the lychgate, churchyard cross, vicarage and village school.

Worth a stop and have a wonder around. plenty to see. 10-15 minutes is enough.

Croxden Abbey, also known as "Abbey of the Vale of St. Mary at Croxden", was a Cistercian abbey. A daughter house of the abbey in Aunay-sur-Odon, Normandy, the abbey was founded by Bertram III de Verdun of Alton Castle, Staffordshire, in the 12th century. The abbey was dissolved in 1538. In 1176, Bertram III de Verdun, the lord of the manor of Croxden, endowed a site for a new abbey near Alton, Staffordshire, to a group of 12 Cistercian monks from Aunay-sur-Odon, Normandy. Bertram founded the abbey, like many noblemen of his time, for the souls of his family. The monks remained at the Alton site until 1179, before moving to land near Croxden, a few miles south. Croxden was relatively prosperous, drawing the majority of its wealth from sheep farming. By 1315, the monks were supplying more wool to the continent than any other religious house in the county, with transactions being recorded with Florentine merchants well into the 1420s.

Depending upon which way you are riding, it's a short steep gravel track to the North and a much longer and gradual bridleway to the South unless you take the riverside Trail option

Named after the Frank I'Th'Rocks Cave nearby, this is a beauty spot in Wolfscote Dale where the bridleway crosses the River Dove.

Builders on site (May 2024) Watch this space!

Nice fun descent down to Mill Lane, sloppy mud at the bottom in winter

Tough as a climb, probably much better as a down hill, will try and hit it in the opposite direction next time.