Peak Forest
| Peak Forest | ||
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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 Forest is a small village and
The village grew from the earlier settlement of Dam (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 the Forest 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' (
The Peak Forest Canal, although originally aiming for the limestone quarries in Great Rocks Dale just to the south of the village, never reached nearer than Buxworth, seven miles away, where it terminates at Bugsworth Basin. Instead, a horse-drawn tramway, the Peak Forest Tramway, was constructed in the late 18th century to connect the canal with the quarries between Dove Holes and Peak Forest.
The original limestone-carrying purpose of the canal was replaced long ago by the
Stage 1 of the Peak District Boundary Walk runs from Buxton to Peak Forest.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ Peak Forest CofE Primary School
- ^ Hadfield, Roger (1985). "An outline history of Peak Forest and Dove Holes". Rootsweb. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ Peak Forest, Genuki, accessed 1 January 2009
- ^ Henderson, Mark (15 November 2017). "Derbyshire's "Gretna Green"". Wonders of the Peak. Derbyshire County Council. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ISBN 978-1909461536.
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