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26-627: Chinley is a rural village in the High Peak Borough of Derbyshire , England, with a population of 2,796 at the 2011 Census. Most of the civil parish (called Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside ) is within the Peak District National Park . Historically, before the coming of the railway, the area was economically dominated by agriculture. Nowadays most inhabitants commute out of the village to work; accessible centres of work include Stockport , Sheffield and Manchester . Chinley lies in

52-577: A country gentleman, attended the parish church, but continued to preach and regularly conducted a service on Thursday evenings in his own house. After the Declaration of Indulgence of 1672, he felt free to preach regularly in his former parish and in the neighbourhood, which was in the Peak District (also known as "The Peak") of Derbyshire, resulting in the moniker "Apostle of the Peak". The Peak District includes

78-462: A primary school; a small residential special school; an active village community centre and a Women's Institute hall; two village greens (one was formerly the bowling green); two parks, one of which is a local nature reserve ; and a small collection of shops, including an Indian restaurant, tea shop, cheese shop, pizzeria and a fish and chip shop. Chinley Juniors Football Club plays its games at Chinley Community Centre. Chinley Churners cycling club

104-678: A royal hunting reserve administered by William Peverel , a favourite of William I , who was based at Peak Castle . High Peak contains much of the Peak District National Park. The district contains the highest point in Derbyshire, Kinder Scout , which stands at 636m (2,087 ft) above sea level. Its settlements act as commuter centres for people who work in the surrounding counties and other parts of Derbyshire, owing to its proximity to Cheshire , Greater Manchester , South Yorkshire , Staffordshire and West Yorkshire . The borough

130-576: Is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire , England, covering a high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. The district stretches from Holme Moss in the north to Sterndale Moor in the south, and from Hague Bar in the west to Bamford in the east. The population of the borough taken at the 2011 Census was 90,892. The borough

156-421: Is officially affiliated to British Cycling and boasts members of all ages. Chinley Independent Chapel, on the southeastern edge of Chinley adjacent to Chapel Milton , was built in 1711. The chapel was established by William Bagshaw as a nonconformist church in 1662, and is still the home of the local Congregational church . It has simple furnishings and a pulpit near the centre of the building. The route of

182-548: Is only bordered by high moorland near Black Hill and is not accessible by road. There are five main areas of settlement in the borough: around Buxton in the south west, around New Mills in the west, around Glossop in the north west, around Whaley Bridge and Chapel-en-le-Frith in the central part of the borough, and the Hope Valley in the east. The northern part of the borough is close to the Manchester urban area. Settlements in

208-478: Is unusual in having two administrative centres for its council, High Peak Borough Council ; the offices are in Buxton and Glossop . Other towns include Chapel-en-le-Frith , Hadfield , New Mills and Whaley Bridge . High Peak was the name of a hundred of the ancient county of Derbyshire covering roughly the same area as the current district. It may have derived its name from the ancient Forest of High Peak ,

234-624: The Peak Forest Tramway (in use from 1796–1923), an early horse-and-gravity-powered railway, runs along the southern edge of Chinley near the Black Brook. The one remaining entrance to the Stodhart Tunnel , one of the oldest railway tunnels in Britain, is just inside the entrance to Chapel Lodge nursing home, on the road between Chapel Milton and Chapel-en-le-Frith (in the latter parish). Part of

260-655: The Winter Hill transmitter. Some eastern parts of the High Peak such as Hope Valley are served by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire broadcasting from the Emley Moor transmitter. Radio stations for the area are: Local newspapers are the Buxton ;Advertiser , Peak Advertiser and Glossop Chronicle . 53°21′N 1°51′W  /  53.35°N 1.85°W  / 53.35; -1.85 William Bagshaw He

286-539: The Blackbrook Valley. To the north is Cracken Edge, a once-quarried promontory of Chinley Churn , a large, prominent hill with a pass followed by the A624 named Chinley Head. Brown Knoll commands the skyline on the eastern border of the civil parish, with South Head and Mount Famine to the north-east. An old winding engine can still be seen atop an incline on the north-eastern face of Cracken Edge. Immediately south of

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312-701: The borough include: The National Trust is a major landowner in the district, owning extensive tracts of moorland and a number of farms, including some in Edale. Features of the Trust's High Peak Estate include Kinder Scout , Odin Mine and Mam Tor . The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of High Peak. In terms of television, the area is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada broadcasting from

338-529: The chapel of Wormhill , in his native parish. From Tideswell he moved to Attercliffe , in Yorkshire. Here he occupied a twofold post, being assistant to the Rev. James Fisher of Sheffield , and chaplain in the family of Colonel John Bright. He received presbyterian ordination in 1651 at Chesterfield . On 11 June 1651 he married Agnes (baptised 19 April 1626), daughter of Peter Barker of Darley, North Yorkshire. Early in

364-1285: The graveyard of nearby Chinley Chapel. Charles Wesley visited Chinley regularly; it is said he was in love with Grace Murray. George Kirk of the Old Hall, Whitehough was groom to the Royal Bedchamber of King Charles I , and was present when the king was beheaded in 1649. Edwina Currie , former Conservative minister, winner of Celebrity Mastermind and author, moved to Whitehough in 2010, but moved to nearby Whaley Bridge in 2012. Constance Felicity Goddard (1881–1954), novelist and poet. Daughter of Mary Ann and James Goddard, dairy farmer, of Heatherlea, Maynestone Road. Novels included Dear Charity (1922), Silver Woods (1939), Come Wind Come Weather (1945), Three at Cherry-Go-Gay (1949). A review in The Spectator compared her work to that of Alison Uttley and Flora Thompson . Her Poems were published in 1929. Eric Hollies (1912–1981), cricketer. A Warwickshire and England leg-break bowler who dismissed Don Bradman in his final Test innings, he died in Chinley aged 68. High Peak, Derbyshire High Peak

390-513: The nearby hamlet of Whitehough, across the Black Brook to the south, dates from Elizabethan times and, with the adjacent 400-year-old licensed premises, forms part of the Old Hall Inn. A King's Mill stood alongside the Black Brook in Chapel Milton for around 700 years, but was destroyed in 1946 to allow construction of a water treatment facility for Ferodo. A small cattle market was developed on

416-555: The railways was the reason Chinley grew from the tiny hamlet it had been and the village is actually named after its railway station. Previously, the names Maynestonefield or Four Lanes End were used. Chinley station was once an important railway junction on the Midland Railway 's Dore and Chinley (or Hope Valley) line ; it had a London-bound extension through Millers Dale and it was common to have to change trains in Chinley en route to Manchester, London or Sheffield. Chinley has

442-434: The route is used as a road for testing car brakes by Ferodo , a local manufacturer of brakes and car parts. There are ruins or conversions of a few mills — one still in use as a plastics factory — and one or two large manor-style homes near the route. The fine stone building of Chinley railway station was dismantled in 1902 and re-erected as a private house on Maynestone Road on the northeast edge of Chinley. The Old Hall in

468-580: The same civil parish is the location of Bugsworth Basin on the Peak Forest Canal . Buxton Road to the east (bypassed here by the A6 through Whitehough) leads to the small settlement of New Smithy , beyond which the road turns south to Chapel Milton before crossing the Black Brook and continuing south into Chapel-en-le-Frith. The boundary of the Peak District National Park runs up the middle of Stubbins Lane and part of Maynestone Road, before crossing down into

494-595: The south side of the railway, near the station, in the early 19th century by a local farmers' co-operative society. It was conducted by Brady & Son of Stockport, who could access it conveniently from Tiviot Dale station on the Midland Railway. It closed before the Second World War . John Bennet (1714–1759), described as "one of John Wesley's most outstanding young preachers", was born at Chinley and lived at Lee End. Bennet and his wife Grace Murray are buried in

520-560: The towns of Buxton, Tideswell, Hucklow (Great and Little Hucklow), Litton and Wormhill, which were familiar places in William Bagshaw's early and later life. He lectured at Ashford , Malcoff , Middleton , Bradwell , Chelmorton and Hucklow . When the Declaration was recalled by Charles II, he continued to preach secretly. There were several ineffective warrants issued against him. While James II's 'Declaration for Liberty of Conscience'

546-465: The valley and over Otter Brook, towards Wash. Chinley railway station has a single island platform on the trans-Pennine Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly . The typical service is one train every hour each way to Sheffield and to Manchester Piccadilly, operated by Northern Trains . It is one of only two stations between Stockport and Sheffield where East Midlands Railway express trains stop in peak hours. The coming of

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572-533: The village, brook and parish border is Eccles Pike , an almost-conical hill, partly owned by the National Trust . Filling the upper end of the valley to the southeast is Chapel-en-le-Frith , more than twice the size of Chinley in area and in population. Other nearby towns include Whaley Bridge (2 miles (3.2 km) west), New Mills (3 miles (4.8 km) northwest), Glossop (6 miles (9.7 km) north) and Buxton (5 miles (8.0 km) south). Buxworth in

598-582: The year 1652 he was appointed Vicar of Glossop, where he worked for the next ten and a half years and would have continued to do so if not for the passing of the second Act of Uniformity in 1662, which resulted in the ejection of 1,700 of the clergy of the Church of England. After the Restoration and the Act of Uniformity 1662 , he gave up his living and retired to Ford Hall near Chinley , in an adjacent parish. He lived as

624-486: Was born at Litton, Derbyshire , on 17 January 1628, the son of William Bagshaw of Hucklow . His brother Adam Bagshaw had Wormhill Hall constructed, which remains with the Bagshawe family to the present day. William received his early education at country schools, and met puritan ministers Rowlandson of Bakewell and Bourn of Ashover . He entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , in 1646. He preached his first sermon in

650-663: Was formed on 1 April 1974, covering the area of six former districts, which were abolished: The borough adjoins the metropolitan boroughs of Sheffield and Barnsley in South Yorkshire , Kirklees in West Yorkshire , the districts of Derbyshire Dales , Cheshire East and Staffordshire Moorlands , and the Stockport , Tameside and Oldham metropolitan boroughs in Greater Manchester . The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham

676-509: Was in force, and again through the beginning of William and Mary's reign, he was an incessant preacher. He died on 1 April 1702, and was buried next to his wife Agnes (died 1 June 1701) at Chapel-en-le-Frith , 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Buxton. A marble and alabaster memorial of 1880 in the church at Chapel-en-le-Frith contains a long inscription and mentions the following children of William and Agnes: John (born 8 January 1654) and Samuel (born 31 December 1656). His Life and Funeral Sermon

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