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 The Heart Of A Peak
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Chapel-en-le-Frith, a place with many
interesting features that lies 6 miles to the north of Buxton, and it
too, is set between the hills that form the southern Pennines. 
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The town is known as the home of Federal Mogul (Ferodo) and its founder, Herbert Frood, the man responsible for giving our motor industry the brake lining. The visitor to this town will notice several curious relics from a bygone era, notably the old stocks on the market place, put there by the town elders to meet out justice to wrong doers, possibly during what is thought to be the period of the English civil war, in the seventeenth century, and the old market cross. A more recent curio, can be seen over the doorway of a premises on the Market Place. A Bull's head stares out over the street, and is all that remains of the inn that once stood here in pre war years. This oldest part of the town has many fine buildings and cobbled streets. Church Brow is one such example, and leads from the church down onto Market Street and the modern section of the town. The Churh was founded by forresters in the Royal Forest of the Peak in 1225. |
Visitors can find a lively market here in Chapel-en-le-Frith every Thursday. There are parish offices, an information centre in the Old Hearse House (on Market Street), and a library within the Town Hall. Buses pass through the town on their way to, and from Stockport and Buxton. The railway and station that serves the town, is a little over 1 mile away to the south. |
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For those who enjoy exploring the countryside on foot, they will find many good walks around the town, for Chapel-en-le-Frith will provide you with many exciting places to discover and investigate. An Old Town Trail and a series of Parish Paths Walks are available from the Hearse House Visitor Centre on Market Street. |
Eccles Pike, a prominent peak 1.5 miles west of the town, features a circular topograph with a modelled profile in bronze of the magnificent 360 degree panorama visible from its summit.
Photographs of the Topograph and the views from this point, are courtesy and copyright of Mike Smith
Chapel-en-le-Frith looking east - July 2006
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