If you’re in the area visiting Lud’s Church and fancy a longer walk back, why not continue along Back Forest Ridge to Hanging Stone? Not a feature I would travel to visit on its own, (there were plenty of ‘oh look, another rock’ jokes on this trip) but the views alone are worth the extra walk if you’re in the area. The Rock is thought to have healing powers, you just have to touch it. People used to crawl underneath it to get the devil off their backs! At some point, the reverence of the stone was thought to be unchristian so it was whitewashed to purify it.

To visit, we parked in a layby near Bearstone Rock (53°10’37.9″N 2°00’29.1″W), and walked along the Roaches, through Lud’s Church, and then on to Hanging Stone.