BLOODY PEAK
Peak Experience
- Alstonefield
- Bakewell
- Baslow
- Birchover
- Bloody punishment: stocks, floggings and gibbets
- Boggarts and ghostly black dogs
- Bradwell
- Castleton
- Chapel-en-le-Frith
- Edale
- Eyam
- Flash
- Gradbach
- Great Longstone and Longstone
- Grindleford, Stoke and Padley
- Grindon
- Hartington
- Hathersage and High Low
- Headless ghosts of the Peak District
- Hob Hurst's Houses
- Hope
- Ilam
- Ipstones
- Kingsley
- Leekfrith
- Longnor and Onecote
- Manifold Valley
- Monsal Dale
- Morridge
- Over Haddon
- Peak Forest
- Quarnford
- Rushton Spencer
- Sheldon
- Stoney Middleton
- Swythamley
- Taddington
- The Roaches - via Upper Hulme
- Tideswell
- Tunstead Milton
- Wardlow Mires
- Wheston
- Wormhill
- Youlgrave and Middleton by Youlgrave
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Picture of St Thomas Becket ChurchStarved to death in church
In 1648 1,500 Civil War soldiers were locked up for 16 days in St Thomas Becket church. 44 Scottish Royalist soldiers starved to death inside and more died later.
The first UFO in the Peak District
Chapel-en-le-Frith recorded in its the parish registers the very first sighting of a UFO in the Peak District in March 1716. The light they
saw may have been an unusually brilliant appearance of the Northern Lights, the
Aurora Borealis. It terrified the local residents and those in other villages.
Access and orientation
The church of St Thomas Becket is on Church Lane at the east end of the Market
Place.
Visit Chapel-en-le-Frith by public transport
Chapel-en-le-Frith is on the rail network – visit the National Rail website to plan your journey. Alternatively, it is served by bus services from Buxton
towards Stockport and Manchester – visit Traveline or call Traveline on 0871 200 2233, to plan your journey.
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