• A village green and ancient cross whose origins have been lost in the mists of time.

• The skull of the man that beheaded Lord Strange in Bolton in 1642.

• The tower that was home to the original one and only ‘Steeple- Jack’.

• The scars in one village of a Zeppelin bombing raid in September 1916.

• The industrial remains of a mill where children under 10 worked 14 hour days

• The folly with gargoyle heads made to look like the next door neighbours

• A road built by Gnaeus Julius Agricola in AD 78.

• A ’Stairway to Heaven’

• Home to the oldest game-cock show in England

• A near perfect example of a pre-industrial Pennine village.

• The highest point in Greater Manchester.

• Medieval field patterns and boundaries

• Where steam trains run every weekend and Bank Holidays

• The farm where thousands of Royalist troops gathered during the English Civil War.