If you travel along the Macclesfield to Leek road in the county of Staffordshire, U.K. it is possible to take a short cut over the top of a hill which would have originally been the old Macclesfield to Leek road. This road would by pass Rudyard Lake named after the famous writer Rudyard Kipling and several bad bends. This short cut which is probably no more than two miles in length is said to be haunted by a headless horseman, perhaps this can account for it being an accident blackspot. As you come down the other side of the hill on the old road, and before you rejoin the main road you can see an unusual shaped hill on you right hand side, it stands proud of the landscape and many people claim it is man made.
The unusual shaped hill on the old Leek road, does it have a connection with the Fairy Folk as some people claim? Photo by Gary Tacagni.
Large stones surround this odd mound, suggesting a stone circle at this spot, and there are local legends that connect it with the Little People. The fact that there is a very strong Ley-line that runs through this hill may reinforce the belief that it was connected to the Tuatha De Danaan (Fairy Folk?). Also during the Winter months this hill tends to be covered with snow while the surrounding countryside remains bare.
Some of the rocks which can be found around the base of this strange hill. Photo by Gary Tacagni.
In the 1980s a group of twelve scouts who were walking along the old Leek road spotted a silver and blue cigar shaped object hovering in the sky, while watching it they were amazed to see it disappear right in front of their eyes.
At the other end of the Old Leek to Macclesfield road can be found Rushton Spencer well, it is at the side of the road about 150yds up the hill on the right. Its claim to fame according to local people is that it can predict the future to some extent. It is said that when the well dries up something evil or bad will happen. The well ran dry before the civil war when Charles the first was beheaded, it ran dry again in 1670 when there was a famine, and also when the gunpowder plot took place. It again ran dry at the outbreak of the first and second world wars, and also at the deaths of certain Monarchs. The photograph below shows Rushton Well as it is today, somewhat neglected and more importantly dry, perhaps this would explain the credit crunch and recession!
Rushton Spencer Well. Photo by Gary Tacagni.
