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BUXTON, Derbyshire
"BUXTON is a market-town and chapelry, in the parish of
Bakewell, and hundred of High Peak; 160 miles from London,
24 S.E. from Manchester, the like distance W. of
Chesterfield, 22 N.E. from Matlock, 20 N.E. from
Wirksworth, 10 S.W. from Castleton, & 6 S. from
Chapel-en-le-Frith. Antiquaries agree that this was a Roman
station, although unable to ascertain it name - in later
days it was called Bawkenstanes, supposed to be a
corruption of Bathanstanes, signifying bath stones;
and one of the Roman roads still retain the name of
Bathorn-gate."
[There is further information for Buxton]
[Description from
Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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- Bentley, Langham and Wells - Buxton and the High Peak. Tempus, 2006.
Read more in this
Review of ‘Buxton and the High Peak’
(Peak Advertiser, 19th June 2006)
- Lomas, Peter - Buxton Hydro (Spa Hotel). Ashridge Press/Country Books, 2007.
Read more in this
Review of ‘Buxton Hydro (Spa Hotel)’
- Roberts, Alan E & Leach, John R - The Coal Mines of Buxton.
Scarthin Books, 1985. 96 pages.
Quoting from its back cover:
"THE COAL MINES OF BUXTON may seem like a fictional title, but it is fact.
The book traces the rise of the coal industry in the neighbourhood of Buxton,
examines its hey-day, and details its decline, quoting extensively from contemporary
documents. If you still need proof of its existence, check out the numerous
industrial remains which are also described in these pages."
This is an evocative book which opens by contrasting the harsh realities of a coal
miner's life in the late 18th century against the heady life of the upper class.
Whilst the 5th Duke of Devonshire was developing Buxton as a spa town, and
his visitors were paying their three shillings admission fee to the Card Room,
a boy working in the coal mines would have to drive an engine horse around its
circular track for six whole days to earn the same amount of money.
Strictly speaking the mines were not in Buxton, but in the parish
of Hartington Upper Quarter, about 2 miles away from Buxton. Nevertheless,
this book is a real treasure trove for the family historian, containing many
personal names, drawing extensively on the accounts of Thomas WYLD, of
1790 (WYLD was the mines' manager on behalf of their owner, the Duke of
Devonshire). The several appendices contain more personal names, including
lists of colliers and coal miners recorded on the 1841, 1851 and 1881 censuses.
- Bower, Alan - "The Water Cure".
Derbyshire Heritage Series, 1985.
Published by J H Hall & Sons Ltd, Siddals Road, Derby. 44 pages.
A small, but very useful booklet containing a collection of postcards, focussing
on hydropathic treatment at Hydros predominantly in Buxton and
Matlock, but also has illustrations of the Hydros at Darley Dale
(now St Elphin's School), Ashover, Baslow and Chesterfield.
There is a brief introduction, describing the growth of the 'Water Cure' from
Roman times through the Middle Ages and into the 1780's when "
social life of a spa at this time was more important than the cure"
through to the heady days of John Smedley, and his followers to its eventual
demise with the advent of the National Health Service in 1948.
Quoting from its back cover:
"This book is primarily a picture book about the Water Cure in Derbyshire.
The picture postcard holds a wealth of information about our recent past and
is an invaluable aid to any Historian. The postcards used to illustrate the
Cure and Hydros date from 1904 to 1920 and aim to show what the life
and treatment at a Hydro was like."
- Photographs of St John the Baptist's Church, Holy Trinity Church,
the Methodist Church,
and the United Reform Church are available in our
Buxton Photo Gallery, provided by Alf Beard.
- Here are a series of
Pictures of the Past of Buxton, dating from around 1910.
(Contributed by Dick Driver, of Washington, USA / and an anonymous donor)
- An account of
Buxton Hall, taken from
Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Volume I
1892 (The High Peak) by Joseph Tilley, transcribed/OCR'd by
Rosemary Lockie. Added 3 Mar 2008.
- Buxton College, previously independent, became a County Grammar
School in 1924. In the few years prior to that, pupils from Buxton
may have attended the
Lady Manners School,
in Bakewell, following its reopening in 1896.
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[Created 7 Jan 1998. Last updated 27 Oct 2008 - 10:48 by Rosemary Lockie]
