 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm out for a walk in Backwood, which is up in the Staffordshire, Moorlands We're about five or six miles away from Leek and pretty couple miles that way I know you can't see it, but as the crow flies is the village of flash the highest village in Great Britain We should go there one day make video, but I've come to show you something up here something mysterious which has a few sort of legends attached to it and It starts just here. This seems like a fairly normal sort of moorland path, but just have a look at this what happens There's a crack in the ground And it's the kind of crack I want to go and explore and go down inside and see what we find Have a look at that Shall we go down and investigate? This is gonna be interesting. I've been down here Once before last year, but I've never done it holding a camera You might have to bear with me a couple of times, but so we now go through this bit here. I'm gonna turn the camera You can see exactly What we're going into we're going right down into the ground We're not actually going underground, but we're going into a deep crack So the place we're going down to this is known as the Ludd's Church and as we get down there Excuse me a moment. Well, I climbed down rather awkward bit of stone step It will widen itself out get more and more exciting So as we descend further into the Ludd's Church I'll tell you a bit about there's a 14th century poem called Segourwin and the Green Knight It said that a Green Knight Gate trashed a feast at Camelot and he came to the nights at around Tabor Tableto and Segourwin he rose to the challenge and he beheaded the Green Knight and He said to them The the Green Knight was beheaded but he simply picked his head back up put it back on to his body and Challenged him to meet at the Green Chapel in a year's time also known as the Ludd's Church as we get further down There's like a little tunnel going off up there and And then there's there's another path I tell you I'm gonna take you up that path if you look down there That's a bit more of what's to come. We're gonna end up down there. Let's make it more fun Let's go this way. So if we go up yet another very narrow Chasm, there's a couple of ways in and There's one sort of main way in and out on to one of the main paths It's quite hard coming up here with a rucksack and filming so as we come up here We come into another chasm That's one of the more Sensible ways out those steps up there if you go and I'm not gonna take you down It's gonna be pretty much impossible, but you can If you go down there That is another way out so I'll show you by going up the steps, but it kind of involves a bit of climbing So you've got to kind of climb up over there and it goes back down again. So that way really is quite difficult We'll just look at this place. It's um, it's if you think this looks amazing Wait and see what we've got to come once we get right down Into the ludge church properly. So we go down here in a minute The whole thing reveals itself. So we just came up that little path We came that way But we're gonna now descend this way further into the ludge church So the reason it's got the name ludge church as I said, it's also known as the green chapel it said in the 15th century it was a place where There was a Christian Reformer John, I forget his surname and he followers of him used to come here and meet and it said it's possibly named after water Dil Luddite if I'm not not to be confused with the word Luddite. I know it's Ludd and So there's various theories as to how it goes named as church But here we are it opens up into this huge chasm. If you look above me, you can sort of see the trees towering above us Really quite a surreal amazing place They say that the ludge church was formed By a huge landslide going back years and years ago that I'm talking millions of years ago and I don't quite Understand about the geology to know how a landslide could cause a chasm quite in this kind of way But if anyone who does know more about geology wants to comment and tell me then You are welcome to do so So as we come down further Into the chasm you can see now just how big and how much it widens itself out It's also very cold here. Even in summer. It never really warms up. Let's go a look I've worn my wellies. I did a walk I walked here from the roaches and it's not really a wellies walk. It's more of a hard sort of them Walking shoes kind of walk, but knowing it'd be muddy here. I decided to wear my wellies Looking back behind where we come and just see that family climbing their way out up the steps So most people tend to enter the ludge church from the other end I like to enter it this way and from the top end and make my way down through it So when these you know when these people did worship here, I can sort of imagine maybe they sat here maybe on the steps and There was a priest or a vicar I don't know. It must have Been fascinating to go back in time and found out. Let's have a look above me like that As we come down here if the floor flattens out, but then we go around another turn So to come down I Just love looking up above and seeing the trees and I've already shown that to you, but I just I Find that view really fascinating. I'm going to let you see it again There's no wind here. I can hear the wind. I don't know if the camera's picking up I can hear the wind sort of howling above us, but here we're very very sheltered now this section here It's where we go around the corner. It becomes muddier. There's even a boardwalk. That's interesting It's like another one not really away going off, but a little sort of not cave, but another crack in the rocks So you can see there's a boardboard now because it has become very muddy. Sorry. I'm glad I wore wellies We come through here We'll soon come to the other end of the Lodge Church. So we climb up up these steps here leaving behind the view of The Lodge Church We're going to climb out here and I'm going to get back onto the main path And now I've got to walk back to the roaches so my car is about three miles away from here So I've got quite a long walk ahead of me. I walked one way. I'm gonna walk back another way So just before we come out of here, I should show you That's another way. I think that goes out onto the main path It's going to involve a bit of climbing. I won't be able to do it holding a camera So I'm not going to do that one. I'm going to go out the normal way. Give you one last look into the chasm of Lodge Church come through here and We're coming out onto the main path which runs back towards the roaches And down here The winds are going to pick up. It was so windy on the roaches. I had planned to do a video, but In my microphone, you would not have heard a word I said, so we'll go back and do that in the summer So we're coming out here and here we are. We're on to the main path and That's how most people first see the Lodge Church. Just this sort of little path going off into a hole in the rocks I'm going to carry on walking that way It's just you can't really see the view too well because of the trees, but let's just go a little way And now I'm going to carry on back to my car So I hope you enjoyed this video from the Lodge Church If you do want to see it do be prepared to walk. It's not somewhere you can just park your car Have a look and go home again. It really is somewhere, you know And That requires I would say at very least a two mile no more than that two and a half three mile roundtrip You can park don't even see it down. There's a camping barn and there's a car park near there You can park there, but as I said be prepared for at least a three mile roundtrip of a walk to see the Lodge Church But it really is worth it. So I hope you enjoyed this video. 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