The quirky Peak District village loved by Liam Gallagher and Tom Cruise with a curry house in a cave

It is one of the most dramatic villages in the Peak District - set amid jutting limestone cliffs. And you may have seen Stoney Middleton make an appearance on the big screen in recent weeks, as this is where Tom Cruise filmed epic scenes for the new Mission Impossible 7 movie.

Action man Tom filmed along the cliffs and quarries of this Derbyshire dale, and apparently even paid the village's quirky food hotspots a visit with cast and crew while he was there. And as well as Tom Cruise paying a visit, it's more recently welcomed Liam Gallagher on his holidays too.

Oasis star Liam popped in to one of Stoney Middleton's famous food hotspots - the village chippy which is set in a Grade-II listed former toll house.

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Sitting in the Middleton Dale valley around 13 miles from Buxton, Stoney Middleton was a village that developed and was near carved out from the dramatic scenery all around it. Limestone quarrying was extensive here for centuries.

It was at the village's Dalton Quarry where Tom Cruise flew over in a helicopter as he engineered a dramatic stunt that saw a train carriage driven off the cliffs for the blockbuster film.

But it was far from the first drama to have played out on these cliffs over the years. One of the most famous stories of this Peak District village is that which gives the name to the imposing rock faces as you drive in - the Lovers Leap cliffs.

According to local legend, back in 1762 the "most beautiful girl in Stoney Middleton", Hannah Baddeley, was cruelly rejected by her lover William Barnsley. She climbed the cliffs, proclaimed her love for William and jumped.

But her woollen petticoats were said to