FAIRFIELD, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"FAIRFIELD, a chapelry in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 1 mile N.E. of Buxton, its post town. It is situated on the banks of the river Wye, which separates it from Buxton. Here is a spring of mineral water, and a good hotel. The land is almost entirely meadow and pasture, with about £170 acres of woodland. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £79. The chapel is a newly built edifice, standing on the site of the old one. It is dedicated to St. Peter. The charities, including the endowment of Swan's school, produce about £40 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]