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Alton is a picture postcard village in the Staffordshire Moorlands, famous for the theme park just up the road, and just on the fringes of the Staffordshire Peak District.

The villagers are served by three churches; St Peter鈥檚, St John鈥檚 and the Methodist chapel. The Anglican parish is 'Alton with Bradley', comprising St Peter鈥檚 and the smaller St Leonard鈥檚, which is in the hamlet of Bradley just over a mile away.

'A Country Parish' will be written up here on the web month by month through 2008 with photos, interactive comments and audio interviews.
And... please leave your thoughts and comments on the messageboard. See the link for that on the right-hand side of this page.

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November '08 - Part 9 of 'A Country Parish'

November... and the village unites to remember its war dead... up the road at the Towers, the rides fell silent at the eleventh hour as thrill seekers also paid their tribute.

Hundreds had turned out to say farewell to听 the old lady of roller coasters - the Corkscrew - as she took her last ride.

And villager Anne Rogers (who is pictured at the top of this page with Mary Fox) reaches a turning point in her campaign to warn schoolchildren of the dangers of drugs.

A video diary kept by her late son, a heroin addict, in the last months of his life, has been made into a network television documentary to be shown next month...