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Part 9 – (Old) Glossop The Anglo-Saxons, who were practical people, would have known that in rainy west-facing hills, valley floors were not a good

Part 8 – Whitfield If you look closely at the 1852 Tithe Map (see pic) you will see that Whitfield was once surrounded by multiple

Part 7 – Charlesworth and Simmondley After it had been “wasted” in the Harrying of the North in 1068-70, the area known in Domesday as

Part 6 – Tintwistle, Arnfield and Crowden For 200 years after the Anglo-Saxons arrived, both sides of the Etherow valley were part of a single

Part 5 – Hadfield and Padfield In 1066 Eilmer, who held Chunal, also held Hadfield. Like Chunal, Hadfield was on a major way, in this

Part 4 – Dinting, Chisworth and Chunal If Leofing, in 1066 lord of Padfield, Glossop and Whitfield, had come back 700 years later he would

Part 3 – All Is Waste William of Normandy wasn’t very welcome in England, especially in the North, and in 1068 he despatched an army

Part 2 – Clearings in the Woods When, around AD 650, the first Anglo-Saxon settlers arrived, the land they wanted to farm would mostly have