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Chapel-en-le-Frith
| Chapel-en-le-Frith | |
|---|---|
 View of the town from Cowlow Lane | |
 Chapel-en-le-Frith parish highlighted within Derbyshire | |
| Population | 8,635 (Parish, 2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SK055806 |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HIGH PEAK |
| Postcode district | SK23 |
| Dialling code | 01298 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Chapel-en-le-Frith (/ˌtʃæpəl ˌɒn lə ˈfrɪθ/) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England.
It has been dubbed the "Capital of the Peak", in reference to the Peak District, historically the highland areas between the Saxon lands (below the River Trent) and the Viking lands (which came as far south as Dore, Sheffield).
The town was established by the Normans in the 12th century, originally as a hunting lodge within the Forest of High Peak. This led to the Anglo-Norman-derived name Chapel-en-le-Frith ("chapel in the forest").[2] (It appears in a Middle English form in a Latin record as Chapell in the ffryth, in 1401.[3]) The population at the 2011 census was 8,635.
- ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "A Brief History of the Parish". Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish Council. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas: CP 40/561; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H4/CP40no561/bCP40no561dorses/IMG_1202.htm (last entry, end of line 1)
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