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Dating back to 1669, the gable end bears the arms of the Pegge family.
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Dating back to 1640.
16th century. The original buildings of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, which was founded in 1585, and received a £4 per year maintenance grant from Sir Thomas Cokayne, High Sheriff of Derbyshire. The school moved away to a new site in 1909, and is now a comprehensive secondary school with 1400 pupils.
The church was dedicated in 1241, and was restored twice in the nineteenth century, including in the 1870s by George Gilbert Scott, who added the battlements to the chancel. The church has a fine interior, particularly the choir ceiling and the stained glass.
Popular beauty-spot on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, famous for its stepping-stones across the River Dove, and Thorpe Cloud, a 942-ft (287-m) conical hill, climbable with care, and with great views all the way up! Car park on the Staffordshire side of the river.