Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England.[nb 1] Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park". A municipal borough until 1974, Buxton was then merged with other localities lying primarily to the north, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak within the county of Derbyshire. Economically, Buxton is within the sphere of influence of Greater Manchester.
Population: 21,300
Latitude: 53° 15' 26.68" N
Longitude: -1° 54' 35.35" W
Coombes Valley RSPB reserve is a nature reserve, run by the RSPB, near the town of Leek in Staffordshire, England. It is best known for its breeding woodland birds, including Common Redstart, Wood Warbler and Pied Flycatcher. It is also home to the …
Castern Hall, also known as Casterne Hall, is a privately owned 18th-century country house in the Manifold Valley, near Ilam, Staffordshire, England.
Brown Low is a bowl barrow most likely dating to the Bronze Age. An earth and stone mound survives east of Marple, Greater Manchester (grid reference SJ98829092). It is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Excavations have discovered fragments of…
The Bowstones are a pair of Anglian cross shafts in Cheshire, England.
Beeston Tor (grid reference SK105540) is a limestone cliff in Staffordshire.
Batham Gate is the medieval name for a Roman road in Derbyshire, England, UK, which ran south-west from Templebrough on the River Don to Brough-on-Noe (Latin Navio) and the spa town of Buxton (Latin Aquae Arnemetiae).
Above Church is a hamlet about 0.6 kilometers (0.4 mi) northwest of Ipstones in the English county of Staffordshire.
The Abbot's Chair is the common name of a former monastic cross, the Charlesworth Cross. Only the socket remains of this boundary cross, built by the monks of Basingwerk Abbey in North Wales.
Woolley Bridge is a village in Glossopdale,On the border with Greater Manchester and Derbyshire. It lies 10 miles from Manchester city centre.
Watford is a small collection of houses, historically part of the hamlet of Whitle, in Derbyshire, England. It is made up of Watford Bridge, Watford Bridge Road, Watford Cottages, Watford Lodge and apartments, and Watford Road. The Sett Valley Trail…
Turf Lea is a hamlet located at the end of The Ridge, above Marple, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK.
Todd Brook is a small river running through the English counties of Cheshire and Derbyshire.
Thorncliffe is a small village in Staffordshire, England, straddling the Staffordshire Moorlands and Peak District National Park. By 1600 the name Thorncliffe had replaced the settlement's earlier name, Thorntileg, meaning "clearing in thorn trees".
St. James's Church is an Anglican church in the evangelical tradition located in the town of Glossop, Derbyshire, in the North West of England. Along with St.
Sparrowlee was the name of a railway station on the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway, a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge line which ran for 8 miles between Hulme End and Waterhouses, in Staffordshire, and was initially operated by the North Sta…
Park Road is a cricket ground in Buxton, England where the Derbyshire first XI played between 1923 and 1986. The ground’s biggest claim to fame was in 1975, when the second day’s play of the County Championship match against Lancashire was wiped out…
Ollersett is an area of New Mills, Derbyshire, England, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) northeast of the town centre, between St. George's Road and High Hill Road.
Mottram in Longdendale was one of the eight ancient parishes of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire, England. Centred on St Michael and All Angels Church it included the townships of Godley, Hattersley, Hollingworth, Matley, Newton, Stayley, Tintwi…