Hayfield

Hayfield () is a village and civil parish in the borough of High Peak, in the county of Derbyshire, England.

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It is located on the River Sett between the towns of Glossop, New Mills and Chapel-en-le-Frith. The village appears in the Domesday Book as Hedfeld and lies on the line of a Roman road from Buxton to Melandra Castle, and on an important former packhorse route between Cheshire and Yorkshire.

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The civil parish includes Hayfield village itself, along with Little Hayfield, Rowarth and Birch Vale.

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A mile east of the village is the confluence of the rivers Sett and Kinder at Bowden Bridge (a packhorse bridge), from where rights of way lead past Kinder Reservoir (built 1911) and on to the Kinder Scout plateau. The Mass trespass of Kinder Scout started from Bowden Bridge Quarry in 1932. The village is a popular walking centre; it lies on the Pennine Bridleway long-distance route and is the home of the Kinder Mountain Rescue Team. A 19th-century railway line from New Mills closed in 1970 and the dismantled trackbed now forms a popular 2½ mile recreational route, the Sett Valley Trail.

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Hayfield church (the Parish Church of St. Matthew) was founded in the 14th century but was largely rebuilt in the 19th century.

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Civil parish: :Parishes in Louisiana USA are sometimes called 'civil parishes' see List of parishes of Louisiana...

High Peak: :See also the High Peak (UK Parliament constituency)...

Derbyshire: Derbyshire (pronounced 'Dar-bee-shur') is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of England's most attractive scenery. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of h...