Description
High Peak, a parliamentary division of Derbyshire, was formed under the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, and returns one member to the House of Commons. Population, 60, 740. The division includes the following:-Buxton- Buxton, Fairfield, Hartington (Upper Quarter), Wormhill; Chapel-en-le-Frith-Aston, Bamford, Brough and Shatton, Bradwell, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Chinley, Bagsworth and Brownside, Derwent, Edale, Femilee, Hayfield, Hope, Hope Woodlands, Newmills, Peak Forest, Thomhill; Glossop- Charlesworth, Chunal, Dinting, Glossop, Hadfield, Ludworth or Chisworth, Mellor, Padfield, Simondley, Whitfield; Glossop, municipal borough.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
