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Whitfield, Derbyshire

Hamlet in Derbyshire, England

Summary

Hamlet in Derbyshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image	Glossop4787ec.JPG
static_image_width	250px
static_image_caption	Whitfield
coordinates
map_type	Derbyshire
official_name	Whitfield
shire_district	High Peak
shire_county	Derbyshire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	High Peak
post_town	GLOSSOP
postcode_district	SK13
postcode_area	SK
os_grid_reference	SK034938

Whitfield is a hamlet and former parish in Derbyshire, England. It is half a mile (1km) south of Glossop Town Hall, south of Glossop Brook between Bray Clough and Hurst Brook. Whitfield was one of the original townships in the ancient Parish of Glossop. Up to the latter part of the 18th century the hamlet was devoted mostly to agriculture with an area of 2,608 statute acres.

Name

The name was recorded as Witfeld in the Domesday Book of 1086 A.D. The Survey of English Place-Names records it as Witfeld (1086), Whitefeld (1226) and Wytfeld (1282)

The name element wit is from Old English wiht ("weight") which itself is derived from Latin vectis ("lever"). The name element feld is from Old English feld ("field").

History

The Manor of Whitfield was conveyed in 1330 to John Foljambe. Though held with the manor of Glossop, the land in Whitfield was mostly not part of the Norfolk estate unlike most of the manor of Glossop. When it was enclosed by act of parliament in 1810 it was recorded as being 1577 acre. Included in Whitfield are the villages of Charlestown and Littlemoor.

The Turnlee Paper factory was in Littlemoor. St James, Littlemoor, was consecrated in 1845 and is built in the Early English style, with tower and 114 ft spire. There is a Methodist Chapel at Whitfield; the Wesleyan Reformers and Independent Calvinists had chapels at Littlemoor.

When Glossop expanded, and the Howardtown Mills were constructed, Whitfield was subsumed into the new town. Power looms were introduced into these mills in 1825. In 1835 Whitfield church was extended to take the increased congregation, and a Church of England primary school was built in 1848; an infant school was added by Anne Kershaw Wood in 1913.

References

Citations

Sources

{{cite book |last1= Morris |first1= Mel |title= Whitfield Conservation Area – Character Appraisal |date= 2014 |publisher= High Peak Borough Council |access-date= 1 May 2023 }}
{{cite book |last1= Clark Hall |first1= John Richard |author-link= John Richard Clark Hall |title= A Concise Anglo−Saxon Dictionary, Second Edition

References

"Topographic Map of Glossop SK13, UK". Worldwide Elevation Map Finder.
"The Hamlet of Whitfield by Robert Hamnett".
"WHITFIELD". Open Domesday.
"Survey of English Place-Names: Whitfield Ho". University of Nottingham.
"St James's Church, Whitfield, Glossop".
Davies, Peggy. (December 1999). "Annals of Glossop". Glossop Heritage Centre.

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