Froggatt is a village and a civil parish on the
A625 road
The A625 is a rural road which runs through north Derbyshire and the Peak District.
Route
First named Ecclesall Road, it begins at the Moore Street roundabout in Sheffield and runs southwesterly towards Hathersage after a change in name to Hat ...
and the
River Derwent in the English county of
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
. The population of the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
at the 2011 Census was 204. It is near the village of
Calver
Calver (Old English ''Calf Slope'') is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 710.
Overview
Calver is a small village situated in the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire. The village ...
.
Etymology
The name Froggatt could take its name from several derivations including Frog Cottage (
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''Frogga Cot''
), and in 1203 a document recorded the settlement here as being Froggegate.
History
In the thirteenth century the manor of Baslow was divided into two
moieties, one going to the Vernons and the other to the Bassetts. Froggatt or Froggecotes as it was at that time was held by the Bassets. About 1290 John Froggecotes of Froggecotes bought land and property including a grove of trees from Simon Bassett. This land, plus more that was purchased from time to time, remained in the family until 1752 when the senior branch of the family died out.
John Froggecotes has many living descendants from a junior branch of the family headed by Thomas Froggott of Folds Farm, Calver.
Culture and community
Froggatt has a place of worship, a Wesleyan chapel and a pub, the Chequers Inn.
Landmarks
The village has a quaint seventeenth-century bridge, unusual in that it has two different shaped and sized arches. There is a
gritstone
Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for pa ...
escarpment called
Froggatt Edge
Froggatt Edge is a gritstone escarpment in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, in Derbyshire, England, close to the villages of Froggatt, Calver, Curbar, Baslow and Grindleford. The name Froggatt Edge applies only to the ...
nearby.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Froggatt, Derbyshire
References
* Derbyshire Record Office D3331 and D1490
External links
Derbyshireuk.net
Civil parishes in Derbyshire
Towns and villages of the Peak District
Derbyshire Dales
Villages in Derbyshire
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