30-418: Chapel Milton is a hamlet on the outskirts of Chapel-en-le-Frith on the road leading from there to Chinley and to Glossop . Within the parish of Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside , it takes its name from the site of a medieval corn mill, Maynstonfield Mill, or “Mainstonefield alias Chinley”. This mill was erected near a stream called Hockholme Brook, which is no longer marked though is thought to converge with
60-626: A centre of Christian ( Congregational ) worship. It is part of the Congregational Federation , and the current minister is Rev. Edmonde Openshaw. John Wesley preached in the hamlet on 28 May 1745, when the miller purportedly tried to drown him out with the sound of the watermill. Grace Bennett (née Murray), Wesley's former fiancé, is buried with the husband she later married, preacher John Bennett, in Chinley Independent Chapel. The viaduct and chapel are both listed buildings,
90-481: A commuter line for work and access to post-16 education. The other railway line passing through the town was built by the Midland Railway , which was formerly one of the main lines from London to Manchester ; Chapel-en-le-Frith Central railway station was opened on this line to serve the town. The line, and Central station, were closed to passenger traffic in 1967 and is now freight-only, carrying aggregate from
120-449: A further ten died when they were marched towards Cheshire . The Eccles Pike Cross stands in the churchyard, having been moved here from Ollerenshaw Farm in 1925. It is believed to be Anglo-Saxon and is covered in very worn carvings. John Wesley visited four times between 1740 and 1786. His journal documents his first visit on 28 May 1745 preaching in the hamlet of Chapel Milton , where the miller purportedly tried to drown him out with
150-526: Is Chapel Town F.C. , playing in Division One of the Manchester Football League . There is a golf course on the western edge of the town. There is also a leisure centre, with tennis courts co-located with High School which provides a range of fitness classes and sports facilities. The town has two schools: Chapel-en-le-Frith High School and Chapel-en-le-Frith Primary School. Scenes from
180-470: Is Chinley Chapel. The Christian congregation, which has continuously occupied this site almost since its foundation (in a barn at nearby Malcoff), was founded in 1662 at the time of the post-Cromwellian struggle between a Presbyterian or Episcopalian form for the Church of England . The present 'chapel', of considerable simplicity and beauty, was built, against considerable local opposition, in 1711. It flourishes as
210-500: Is nearby Chapel railway station. Dove Holes , in the southeast of the parish, has its own station . Within the village lie the earthworks of a Neolithic henge known as the Bull Ring ; the site also includes an oval and bowl barrow . 53°19′19″N 1°55′01″W / 53.322°N 1.917°W / 53.322; -1.917 Eccles Pike Eccles Pike is an isolated hill three miles west of Chapel en le Frith in
240-506: Is north of the town centre on Hayfield Road, the old road to Chapel Milton and the rest of the neighbouring parish of Chinley. It has a later 19th-century extension in the neo-gothic architectural style with a datestone inscribed "JB 1869". Along the B5470 road west of the town are the linear settlements of Bridgefields, Cockyard and Tunstead Milton. Ollerenshaw Hall dates from c.1800 and stands below Eccles Pike. The village of Combs, west of
270-576: Is said to have died on 14 December 1283. The 18th-century town stocks , for the punishment of petty crimes, still stand on the side of Chapel-en-le-Frith Market Place. Chapel-en-le-Frith Town Hall in Market Street was completed in 1851. Ford Hall in the east of the parish, northeast of Slacke Hall and Bowden Hall, was the home of the Reverend William Bagshaw , the 'Apostle of the Peak', after he
300-587: The Derbyshire Peak District , England. It consists of gritstone, pink in colour at the summit. While not as prominent as the surrounding hills of Cracken Edge and Combs Moss , it is popular with walkers. At 370 metres (1,210 ft) above sea level, it offers good views of Manchester to the west and the Kinder Scout plateau to the east. Combs Reservoir lies just south of the hill. The name 'pike' means pointed hill; it's not known how it acquired
330-458: The Whaley Bridge road ( grid reference SK051805 ). It consisted of an entrance range and an accommodation block of three wings centred on an octagonal hub, an infirmary and an isolation hospital. The workhouse was later converted into an old people's home and was demolished in the early 1980s. Greatest Hits Radio Derbyshire (High Peak) , an independent local radio station for High Peak and
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#1733084648919360-508: The setts raised above the High Street, which is still used every Thursday to host the local market (though due to the current retail climate, the number of stalls present has declined considerably). A market cross has a faint date which may read 1636, but the cross itself is considerably older. Chapel Poor Law Union was established in December 1837. The union workhouse was built c .1840 on
390-572: The BBC Television series The Village and The Secret of Crickley Hall were filmed in and around Chapel; Bowden Hall featured in both series. In 2015 Halfords made their Christmas advert around Rowton Grange Road in Chapel-en-le-Frith. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada . Television signals are received from the Winter Hill and
420-508: The Black Brook at Chapel Milton. Originally built in 1391 for £12 4s 1d, the mill (which adjoined what is now Milton House) was demolished in 1946. The hamlet is notable for two major features. The first is Chapel Milton Viaduct , bifurcating double railway viaduct crossing the Black Brook, tributary to the Goyt , on which Chapel Milton is situated. One section of the viaduct diverges and curves to
450-565: The Hope Valley, previously broadcast as High Peak Radio from studios just off the High Street. The town has its own theatre company, the Chapel Players, located just off Market Place. Chapel-en-le-Frith station is located one mile (1.5 km) from the town centre, on the Buxton line between Buxton and Manchester Piccadilly . The journey to Manchester takes 40–50 minutes; it is well-used as
480-406: The door, a bay window with fine botanical painted glass and canvas panels to the doors, formerly with painted panels by Armstrong and Caldecott. The south elevation of the house has a central Venetian doorway with columns either side of double-glazed doors—here too are voussoirs decorated with floral motifs, set in an imposing ashlar surround. Its nearby lodge, by W.E.Nesfield, is also listed, as
510-465: The engagement though this is disputed. Subsequently, Grace married John Bennett, preacher and resident of Chapel-en-le-frith, and John's last visit to Chapel-en-le-frith on 3 April 1786 at age 86 was at Grace's request. Grace and John Bennett are buried in Chinley Independent Chapel in Chapel Milton. The town has a strong industrial heritage which continues today. The brake-lining manufacturer Ferodo
540-519: The highest point in the town proper. The current building is now almost entirely of 18th-century construction above a crypt of 1225. Buried in the churchyard are soldiers of the Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton who marched south in support of Charles I in 1648. After their defeat at Preston , they were marched to Chapel and imprisoned in the church for sixteen days in such squalid conditions that forty died;
570-775: The latter at Grade II*. Chapel-en-le-Frith Chapel-en-le-Frith ( / ˌ tʃ æ p əl ˌ ɒ n l ə ˈ f r ɪ θ / ) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire , England. It has been dubbed the "Capital of the Peak", in reference to the Peak District , historically the highland areas between the Saxon lands (below the River Trent ) and the Viking lands (which came as far south as Dore, Sheffield ). The town
600-451: The local relay transmitters. The town's local radio stations are BBC Radio Manchester on 95.1 FM and Greatest Hits Radio Derbyshire (previously Imagine FM and High Peak Radio ) on 106.6 FM. Chapel-en-le-Frith is served by the local newspaper Buxton Advertiser . A square of cobbles adjacent to the stocks marks the spot where Will Scarlet , the legendary companion of Robin Hood,
630-415: The name Eccles, or whether this name relates to the town on the other side of Manchester famous for its currant cakes . The Eccles Pike Fell Race is reputedly one of the oldest fell races in the country, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. It is renowned for being short, tough and demanding. At the top of the hill is a commemorative plaque known as a topograph , showing a 360° relief of
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#1733084648919660-498: The occasional gorge . Combs Moss , a gritstone 'edge', dominates the valley in which Chapel lies from the south and Eccles Pike rises sharply above the town to its west and provides a commanding 360° viewpoint. The first chapel in the town (now the Church of St. Thomas Becket ) was originally built by the Normans but was replaced with a larger building a hundred years later. It stands at
690-457: The quarries around Buxton . It terminates at its junction with the Hope Valley line , by way of Chapel Milton Viaduct , which diverges east and west above the Black Brook valley at Chapel Milton , near Chinley signalbox . The town is also served by High Peak 's 199 skyline service, which runs every 30 minutes between Buxton, Stockport and Manchester Airport . The town's football team
720-691: The sound of the watermill. On his following visit twenty years later, he preached in a field at Townend, and by his subsequent visit on 1 April 1782 a chapel had been built. All that remains of the original chapel is an archway inscribed "1780" at the back of the current Townend Methodist Church. Following an illness in 1748, Wesley was nursed by Grace Murray, a class leader and housekeeper at an orphan house in Newcastle. Taken with Grace, he invited her to travel with him to Ireland in 1749, where he believed them to be betrothed though they were never married. It has been suggested that his brother Charles Wesley objected to
750-574: The town is in the western part of the Peak District. To the north and south lie the Dark Peak highlands, which are made up of millstone grit and are heather -covered moorlands, rugged and bleak. These include Chinley Churn and South Head with, a little further off, Kinder Scout , which looms above the whole area. To the east is the gentler and more pastoral White Peak , consisting largely of limestone grasslands, nevertheless with spectacular bluffs and
780-550: The town, gives its name to the adjacent Combs Reservoir . The Old Brook House (and its barn), close to the Beehive Inn in the centre of Combs, are listed buildings; parts of the house's grand layout clearly date from the 17th and 18th centuries and, as such, it is similar to Marsh Hall closer to Chapel. In the rolling hills between Combs and Chapel is Bank Hall, extensively altered in 1872–74 for Henry Renshaw of Manchester on an ornate aerial plan with an elaborate stone balcony over
810-406: The west whilst the other (built a little later) curves to the east as the line, coming up from the south, links up with the main line between Sheffield and Manchester . At one time the western section carried express trains from London ( St Pancras ) to Manchester Central Station. The viaducts now carry considerable loads of quarried stone from the works around Buxton . The other major feature
840-408: Was a family concern for over a hundred years and was first established in the town; it is now part of the international conglomerate Federal-Mogul . There are a number of other thriving businesses based in the town and adjacent areas, including scientific research companies Concept Life Sciences and Retogenix as well as Rochling Fibracon Ltd and Kelsa Truck Ltd. There is a regular market place , on
870-492: Was ejected from the vicarage of Chinley on the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Also in the east of the parish, next to a lake alongside the A623 and not nationally listed for its architecture, is the modest Bennetston Hall, which is being renovated as a hotel. Nearby are the site of Peaslow's Cross, and Rushup Hall, a modest but ornate 19th-century private house. Stodhart Lodge, a care home,
900-581: Was established by the Normans in the 12th century, originally as a hunting lodge within the Forest of High Peak . This led to the Anglo-Norman -derived name Chapel-en-le-Frith ("chapel in the forest"). (It appears in a Middle English form in a Latin record as Chapell in the ffryth , in 1401. ) The population at the 2011 census was 8,635. Although most of the area is outside the National Park boundary,
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