Looking down from Stormy Point on Alderley Edge towards the Pennines. Perhaps beneath these rocks there are 140 knights with white horses!
According to legend an army of knights sleep in a large secret cavern below, guarded by a wizard. Long ago the wizard noticed a farmer taking a white horse to the market at Macclesfield and asked the farmer if he could buy it because one knight had no horse. On being refused, the wizard said it would not sell and true to his prophesy it hadn't. On his return home the farmer agreed to sell it after all, whereupon the wizard made a slash in the rocks and showed him the sleeping knights and told him to take some of the huge pile of treasure beside the knights. Then the farmer discovered he was outside the rocks again and was never able to find his way in again.
The only "treasure" that has been found since have been the deposits of copper, lead and cobalt among the sandstone rocks. There are evidences that 4000 years ago Bronze Age miners mined and smelted lead and copper for making tools and Romans also continued to mine for the ore. In the 18th and 19th centuries vast caverns and tunnels were dug when they also discovered cobalt deposits. Today the tunnels and caves now blocked or fenced off but I have been in one years ago and experienced cavers sometimes now have access.