Thanks to all of you for the replies - it was segmented as in an
armadillo! - and moved not on legs, but by peristalsis? Hope it isn't an
escaped pet and is just a baby, we do have a pet shop about half a mile away
which sells all sorts of scary things (scary to me, anyway).

Aileen

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$ inch long Millipede in UK?
I would have thought that it was a caterpillar of one of the Hawk moths,

You can get all sorts of exotic millipedes as pets these days....perhaps
someone's pet escaped?

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