Tideswell

Tideswell

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 53.27
longitude= -1.77
static_

static_image_caption=The George Hotel, Tideswell.

official_name= Tideswell
map_type= Derbyshire
population =
shire_district= Derbyshire Dales
shire_county = Derbyshire
region= East Midlands
constituency_westminster= High Peak
post_town= BUXTON
postcode_district = SK17
postcode_area= SK
dial_code= 01298
os_grid_reference= SK154748

Tideswell is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England ( [http://maps.google.com/maps?output=setprefs&near=Tideswell,%20Derbyshire,%20SK17,%20UK location map] ). It lies six miles east of Buxton, off the B6049, in a wide dry valley on a limestone plateau, at an altitude of over 1,000 ft above sea level. The population was 1717 in 1991, making it the second largest habitation within the National Park, after Bakewell. [ [http://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.info/studyArea/factsheets/16.html Peak District National Park Factsheet 16: Population & Employment in the Peak District National Park] ]

There is some debate as to how the village got its name. Some say it originates from a Saxon chieftain named Tidi, others that the name comes from a "tiding well" situated in the north of the village.

In the Middle Ages, Tideswell was a market town known for lead mining.The Tideswell lead miners were renowned for their strength and were much prized by the military authorities. George III is reported to have remarked when a group of miners were paraded before him in London-

" I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but Good God they Frighten me".

Tideswell is now best-known for its fourteenth century parish church, the Church of St John the Baptist, known as the "Cathedral of the Peak". A sundial lies in the churchyard; it lies on steps which Neville T. Sharpe hypothesises may be those of the village's market cross. A market and two-day fair were granted to the village in 1251. [Neville T. Sharpe, "Crosses of the Peak District" (Landmark Collectors Library, 2002)]

The town has a week-long festival near the summer solstice known as the Wakes, culminating in "Big Saturday" which includes a torchlight procession through the streets, led by a brass band playing a unique tune called the Tideswell Processional [http://tideswellman.blogspot.com/2005/11/tideswell-band-torchlight-morris-dance.html] , and townsfolk dancing a specific weaving dance.

Tideswell is locally called "Tidza" (or "Tidsa"), and the folk known as "Sawyeds" due to a traditional story that when a farmer's cow got its head stuck in a gate, the farmer got it free by sawing off its head. Today this story is re-enacted raucously and colourfully each Wakes by a local mummers group called the Tidza Guisers.

Notable people

*Christopher Buxton Martyr, studied here at Tideswll Grammar school under Nicholos Garlickpublic-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913]
*Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher (Vicar of Tideswell) - historian [Crockford's Clerical Directory (1935)]
*Blessed Nicholas Garlick Catholic priest and martyr was a schoolmaster here in the sixteenth century
*William Newton, poet and philanthropist was buried here.William Newton at the Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain]
*Samuel Slack Notable bass singer born 1757 of local fame, reputedly sang before King George III [ [http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=10900621" Peakheritage.org.uk] ] .
*Judy Leden, stunt flyer and three times world hang-gliding champion.

References

External links

* [http://www.derbyshireuk.net/tideswell.html Derbyshire UK - Tideswell]
* [http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=153 Peak District Online - Tideswell]
* [http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/visits/tidzach.php Description of Tideswell Church. ]
* [http://books.google.com/books?lr=&as_brr=1&q=tideswell&btnG=Search+Books Link to interesting search of Google Books on Tideswell with several good books fully online mentioning Tideswell. ]
* [http://www.usigs.org/library/books/uk/dby/DbyYeatman5/index.html The Feudal History of the County of Derby Vol.5 Section 9, by John Pym Yeatman, G4TIFF page images, plus poorly OCRed HTML, This has a lot of information on Tideswell during the 11 thru 13th Centuries.]


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