Owler Bar is a small area of settlement and locally important road junction in the parish of

Holmesfield Holmesfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 971. The name "Holmesfield" means "raised pasture-land" and is of Norse and Anglo-Saxon origin. Viking influ ...

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, England. It lies at an altitude of 305 metres and is just south of the county border with

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, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. It lies west of the town of Dronfield and is where the A 621, B6054 and B6051 roads meet. The junction of the roads takes the form of an unusually large roundabout, or one-way system. Despite its small size, the hamlet has two pubs: the Peacock and the Moorlands. A

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lies immediately north of the hamlet. Notable residents have included rambler

G. H. B. Ward George Herbert Bridges Ward, known as G. H. B. Ward or Bert Ward (1876 – 14 October 1957) was an activist for walkers' rights and a Labour Party politician. Political activism Born in central Sheffield, Ward worked as an engineer in a lo ...

.Local history
", ''Dore to Door'', Spring 2001

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Hamlets in Derbyshire Towns and villages of the Peak District North East Derbyshire District {{Derbyshire-geo-stub