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Date of photo: 1960	Picture source: Andrew Taft
The Highwayman was situated on Macclesfield Road. This pub was previously known as The Blacksmiths Arms. It closed in 2010 and has now been converted into a private residence.
From The Good Pub Guide 1983:
There are fine views of the Cheshire Plain set off dramatically by the closer hills either from the front terrace or from the small windows of this friendly, isolated old pub. It has a series of small rooms, low beams, some antique settles as well as the simpler cushioned seats around its rustic wooden tables, and a high copper-covered bar counter serving well-kept Thwaites from handpump. There is quite a wide choice of food from black pudding either with chips or in a barm cake (90p), through half a dozen pizzas (from £1.40) to duckettes (£2) and steaks, with soup and sandwiches filled with home-cooked meats (each 70p) too at lunchtime. Darts, a fruit machine. The seventeenth-century pub, very wamly welcoming, gets quite crowded in the evenings when parking nearby may not be easy.
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