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Some delightful hamlets are to be found within the Parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith. Some small communities, such as Blackbrook, Bagshaw and Barren Clough are tucked deferentially into the hills of the Dark Peak. Chapel Milton sits under twin, curving railway viaducts, which are great monuments from the Railway Age, and Tunstead Milton is a picturesque hamlet on the western edge of the parish. The larger communities are:

WHITEHOUGH

1.25 miles north of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Whitehough is a picturesque hamlet that shelters in a deep, cosy valley below Chinley Churn. Its picturesque cottages and its two inns, the Old Hall and the Oddfellows, are clustered around the Elizabethan Old Hall. A miniature monument at the centre of the village carries the inscription “Pax Vobiscum” (Peace be with you) - an appropriate sentiment in this peaceful little place.

COMBS

The hamlet of Combs occupies an idyllic location between the gritstone ridge of Combs Moss and Combs Reservoir. Its houses are scattered about a road that follows the eastern shore of the lake on its way to the welcoming Beehive Inn.

SPARROWPIT

Sparrowpit is a one-street village strung along a ridge that marks the watershed of England. Almost all the houses line one side of the street, which is over 1,000ft above sea-level. As one of the earliest Wesleyan communities in the country, Sparrowpit retains its Methodist church. The Wanted Inn, formerly the Devonshire Arms, owes its unusual name to the fact that it was bought after a period when it had been left empty and unwanted!

DOVE HOLES

This sizeable village, which stands alongside the A6 between Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton, is the site of a Neolithic earthwork known as the Bull Ring. The ancient monument consists of a platform surrounded by a ditch and encircling ramparts. Although it has lost all its stones, the Bull Ring has identical dimensions to the Arbor Low stone circle, eleven miles to the south west. Dove Holes has two pubs, the Wheatsheaf and the Queen’s, a large cricket ground, a thriving Community Association and is the venue for an annual Jazz Festival.