The wire for the first transatlantic telegraph cable was drawn here, at Thomas Bolton’s copper works beside the Churnet — sixty tons of it, spun for the 1858 cable that briefly linked Britain and America. The works are long gone, and Oakamoor is now a green walkers’ village, its mill pool and riverside paths tucked into the wooded Churnet Valley, with the old railway trail running nearby.
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