Peak Forest
| Peak Forest | |
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 The church | |
  Peak Forest Location withinDerbyshire | |
| Population | 335 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SK113793 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUXTON |
| Postcode district | SK17 |
| Dialling code | 01298 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Peak Forestis a small village andcivil parishon the main road the (A623) fromChapel-en-le-FrithtoChesterfieldinDerbyshire.The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 335.[1]
The village grew from the earlier settlement ofDam(still inhabited, with a number of houses and farms) at the conjunction of Perrydale and Damdale. There is an inn, a church and a primary school.[2]Its name probably derives from theForest of High Peak.The village is at the heart of the old royal forest and was formerly known as Chamber of Campana. The nearby Chamber Farm or Chamber Knoll may have been the exact location of the residence and meeting place of local forest officials.[3]
Its church is dedicated to 'Charles, King & Martyr' (KingCharles I of England,executed in 1649).[4]First erected in 1657, it was replaced in 1878 as a gift from theDuke of Devonshire.Until an Act of Parliament was passed in 1754 its minister was able to perform marriages without the need for reading thebanns,and the village was known as theGretna Greenof Derbyshire.[5]
ThePeak Forest Canal,although originally aiming for thelimestonequarries inGreat Rocks Dalejust to the south of the village, never reached nearer thanBuxworth,seven miles away, where it terminates atBugsworth Basin.Instead, a horse-drawn tramway, thePeak Forest Tramway,was constructed in the late 18th century to connect the canal with the quarries betweenDove Holesand Peak Forest.
The original limestone-carrying purpose of the canal was replaced long ago by theGreat Rocksmineral railway line serving the quarries aroundBuxtonand joining theManchester–Sheffieldline, via the divergingChapel Milton Viaductover the Black Brook valley atChapel Milton(between Chapel-en-le-Frith andChinley). Its railway station (now closed) was built by theMidland Railway,two miles away at Small Dale. This was on its extension of theManchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway,part of the main Midland Line from Manchester to London. It was also the northern junction for the line fromBuxton.
Stage 1 of thePeak District Boundary Walkruns fromBuxtonto Peak Forest.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Civil Parish population 2011".Neighbourhood Statistics.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved30 March2016.
- ^Peak Forest CofE Primary School
- ^Hadfield, Roger (1985)."An outline history of Peak Forest and Dove Holes".Rootsweb.Retrieved12 April2020.
- ^Peak Forest,Genuki, accessed 1 January 2009
- ^Henderson, Mark (15 November 2017)."Derbyshire's" Gretna Green "".Wonders of the Peak.Derbyshire County Council.Retrieved4 October2019.
- ^McCloy, Andrew (2017).Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park.Friends of the Peak District.ISBN978-1909461536.
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