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Flash

At over 1,518 feet above sea level, Flash is said to be the highest village in England. The village has historical connections with cock fighting and counterfeiting money. The area around is also notable for the weirdly-shaped outcrops of gritstone that occur - Ball Stones, Gib Torr and Ball Stone Rock, for example.

Cock fighting was so popular here, that it continued long after it had been made illegal.

The men of Flash, or Flashmen, were notorious for counterfeiting coins and they found a novel way to escape punishment. The Three Shires Head is a local beauty spot where the three counties of Derbyshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire meet, and this meant then that the police in one county could not arrest wrongdoers in another county. So, at the Three Shires Head, Flashmen escaped capture by hopping from Shire to Shire.

Available Guidebooks for this region:

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The Hidden Places of the Peak District and Derbyshire

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the Heart of England

This guidebook covers Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

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