FAIRFIELD, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Owen, David - Images from a Fairfield Camera. Bingham Trust, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9554845-1-3.
  
  
• Owen, David - The Spirit of North Road School Fairfield, 2006. No ISBN.

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Census

• The parish was in the Buxton sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
  
  
• The church was built in 1839 on the site of an older church.
  
  
• The church seats 300.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1738.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1887.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Buxton sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"FAIRFIELD is a chapelry, in the parish of Hope, in the same hundred as Buxton, 1 mile N.N.E. from that town. Here is an ancient church, dedicated to St. Peter; the living is in the gift of trustees residing in the parish and the present incumbent is the Rev. Geo. Mounsey. On a large tract of waste ground, an excellent round course has been formed, where horse races take place. on the Wednesday and Thursday in the week after the meeting at Newton ith' Willows; for the accommodation of visiters, a handsome stand has been erected. From this village, the best panoramic view of Buxton crescent, &c. is obtained. The population returns of this chapelry present a singular coincidence, the number of inhabitants being 482, at the several censuses taken in 1811, 1821 and 1831."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The River Wye divides this parsih from the township and village of Buxton.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Fairfield entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Fairfield from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1871	2,003
1881	2,817
1891	3,854

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