Description
Beard, a hamlet in New Mills parish, Derbyshire, in the High Peak division of the county, near the river Etherow and the Peak railway, 5 miles NW of Chapel-le-Frith. The nearest station is Glossop (2 miles) on the M.S. & L. railway. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in iron foundries and quarries, also in candlewick mills and chemical works.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
