Longnor

Pressing onward and upward I came in time to the flight of stone steps that allows access to the Longnor road and passed the rear of Warslow Hall, silent now in the strong sunlight of this summer morning.

Country diary 2010

Then a car overtook me, heading towards Longnor, and there, sitting in the back like two concerned grandmas not fully confident of their driver's ability, were the labradoodles.

Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands 2010

It was the same when climbing the stone steps to the Longnor road near Warslow Hall; fallen sycamore leaves had been piled into drifts by the wind.

Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010

Pressed, Peter Grundy had only been able to come up with either the village hall in Longnor or this depressing annexe to the Methodist Chapel that squatted on the main road just past the Scardale turn-off.

Archive 2007-02-01 Divers 2007

Volunteers are asked to assemble at the Methodist Hall on the B 8673 south of Longnor at half past eight on Saturday morning.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

A missing child in Scardale was far too close to home for Longnor not to feel a chill wind on its neck.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

Peter Grundy had only been able to come up with either the village hall in Longnor or this depressing annexe to the Methodist Chapel that squatted on the main road just past the Scardale turn-off.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

The five-hour journey seemed to flash past, and suddenly they were drawing up outside a cottage just off the main street in Longnor.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

'I never really knew Peter, he was away from Scardale long before I even became village bobby in Longnor.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

There would have been more traffic than usual on the Longnor road.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999