Tideswell is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England (location map). It lies six miles east of Buxton, off the B6049, in a wide dry valley on a limestone plateau, at an altitude of over 1,000 ft above sea level. The population was 1717 in 1991, making it the second largest habitation within the National Park, after Bakewell.
There is some debate as to how the village got its name. Some say it originates from a Saxon chieftain named Tid...
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Tideswell is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England (location map). It lies six miles east of Buxton, off the B6049, in a wide dry valley on a limestone plateau, at an altitude of over 1,000 ft above sea level. The population was 1717 in 1991, making it the second largest habitation within the National Park, after Bakewell.
There is some debate as to how the village got its name. Some say it originates from a Saxon chieftain named Tidi, others that the name comes from a "tiding well" situated in the north of the village.
In the Middle Ages, Tideswell was a market town known for lead mining.The Tideswell lead miners were renowned for their strength and were much prized by the military authorities. George III is reported to have remarked when a group of miners were paraded before him in London-
" I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but Good God they Frighten me".
Tideswell is now best-known for its fourteenth century parish church, the Church of St...
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