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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.
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February '09 - Part 12 of 'A Country Parish'

February came in with an icy blast - and one of its first casualties was the vicar Michael Last - on his way through the village he slipped on a frozen pavement and broke his leg!

Hopefully his planned new life in Canada will still go ahead on schedule. The parochial church council has begun the detailed exercise of finding a new vicar - meanwhile everyone is rallying round to ensure services go ahead.

In the last of the series Mary Fox has been to see the "church in the wilderness" - St Leonard's, in the hamlet of Bradley-en-le-Moors, just a couple of miles from the village. It's small, hidden away and has a fiercely loyal but tiny congregations - and the biggest door key you've ever seen...