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| Warslow featured in the Domesday book, and was probably relatively more important then than it is now, for it has been eclipsed as a local centre by Hartington.
Situated on the edge of the moors along the road south from Longnor, it has a fine view of the Manifold valley (Thor's Cave can be seen from the top of the village), but contains little of immediate interest to the visitor, though there are some pretty cottages made of the local sandstone, and a pub called the Waterloo.
The church is a mixture of Georgian and Victorian and contains relics of the local notables - a box pew belonging to the Harpur-Crewe family who had estates here (and around Longnor) and would use Warslow Hall for grouse shooting sessions; and a window which commemorates Sir Thomas Wardle, a silk mill owner from Leek who built Swainsley Hall, which is below the village in the Manifold valley. |
