Listed Buildings In Fairfield, Derbyshire
Fairfield, Derbyshire, Fairfield is a district in the town of Buxton in the High Peak, Derbyshire, High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. The district of Fairfield contains nine Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". Apart from a church, all the listed buildings are houses, farmhouses or cottages. __NOTOC__ Buildings References Citations Sources

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Fairfield, Derbyshire
Fairfield is a district of Buxton in the High Peak of Derbyshire. The historic medieval village of Fairfield was centred around a village green (known as 'the Green'). Location Fairfield is located on the A6 road half a mile to the north east of Buxton's town centre, 340m above sea level. Fairfield is at the head of the narrow dry gorge of Cunningdale, which is part of the Wye Valley Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). History The name Fairfield derives from the Germanic meaning 'fair open land', because of its good volcanic soil for pasture. Cistercian monks and Benedictine nuns founded monastic granges at Fairfield in the early 1200s AD (Nunsfield Farm still exists). In the 13th century Fairfield (being north of the River Wye) was within the Royal Forest of Peak, a hunting ground for the king. Fairfield was a chapelry in the parish of Hope (whereas Buxton was in the Bakewell parish). Fairfield and Buxton shared a medieval corn mill on the Wye in Mill Dale, where A ...
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