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Tideswell is a village and
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 ...
in the
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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 ...
, England. It lies east of
Buxton Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level.
on the B6049, in a wide valley on a
limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
plateau, at an altitude of above
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, and is within the District of Derbyshire Dales. The population (including
Wheston Wheston is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District. Notable features include Wheston Hall and the Wheston Cross. The cross, which survives intact, is more than high. It probably dates from the 14th century and marked the way f ...
) was 1,820 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,827 at the 2011 Census, making it the second-largest settlement within the National Park, after
Bakewell Bakewell is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known also for its local Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, about 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Sheffield. In the 2011 census, ...
.
Tideswell Dale Tideswell Dale is a short dry limestone valley near Tideswell village, Derbyshire, in the Peak District of England. There is a farmland plateau on either side. The foot of the valley leads into Miller's Dale on the River Wye, which the vall ...
is a short limestone valley leading south from the village to the
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valley.


Name

There is some debate as to how the village got its name. The
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accepts it as being named after a Saxon chieftain named Tidi, others that the name comes from a "tiding
well A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...
" situated in the north of the village. This 'ebbing and flowing' well was declared to be one of the
Seven Wonders of the Peak The Seven Wonders of the Peak were described in the 17th century by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his book ''De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being The Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire, Commonly called The Devil's Arse of Peak.'' The wonders refer to ...
by
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in his 1636 book ''De Mirabilibus Pecci.'' Tideswell is known locally as ''Tidza'' or ''Tidsa''. In addition, local residents are known as ''Sawyeds'', owing to a traditional story about a farmer who freed his prize cow from a gate in which it had become entangled, by sawing its head off. Today the story is re-enacted raucously and colourfully every
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by a local
mummers Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as ''rhymers'', ''pace-eggers'', ''soulers'', ''tipteerers'', ''wrenboys'', and ''galoshins''). ...
group called the Tidza Guisers.


History and heritage

In the
Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
, Tideswell was a
market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...
known for
lead mining Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, l ...
. The Tideswell lead miners were renowned for their strength and were much prized by the military authorities. The
Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
of 1086 lists TIDESUUELLE as the King's land in the charge of
William Peverel William Peverel († 28. January 1114), Latinised to Gulielmus Piperellus), was a Norman knight granted lands in England following the Norman Conquest. Origins Little is known of the origin of the William Peverel the Elder. Of his immediate f ...
with fewer than five households. Tideswell is now best known for its 14th-century
parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...
, the Church of St John the Baptist, known as the "Cathedral of the Peak", which contains three 15th-century
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s. A
sundial A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat ...
lies in the churchyard; it is positioned on steps which local historian Neville T. Sharpe thinks likely to be those of the village's
market cross A market cross, or in Scots, a mercat cross, is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron. History Market crosse ...
. A market and two-day fair were granted to the village in 1251. The Foljambe family, later the
Foljambe baronets The Baronetcy of Foljambe of Walton was created in the Baronetage of England on 24 July 1622 for Francis Foljambe of Walton Hall, Walton, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who was later Member of Parliament for Pontefract in 1626 and High Sheriff ...
, were the principal landowners from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The town has a week-long festival near the
summer solstice The summer solstice, also called the estival solstice or midsummer, occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the summer ...
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, and townsfolk dancing a traditional weaving dance.


Taste Tideswell

In May 2009, Tideswell won a £400,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund's ''Village SOS'' programme. In a bid to help keep its village shops open and thriving—over 20 shops had closed in the preceding decade—''Taste Tideswell'' was created, to reconnect local people with their food and make Tideswell famous as a food destination. On 6 December 2010 the Tideswell School of Food opened, running full-priced cookery and brewing courses as well as subsidised community courses. The School of Food was intended to be the financial engine for the project that would help to develop work in the community. It closed during 2014 because of cashflow issues. ''Tideswell Made'' is a quality mark that local food producers, retailers, public houses and holiday accommodation can buy into. Ensuring products are sourced as locally as possible and made locally, ''Tideswell Made'' is marketed by ''Taste Tideswell'' and helps local business get wider recognition for their locally made produce. ''Taste Tideswell'' has an education service, visiting schools with a variety of food- and growing-related activities. School groups also visit the School of Food for practical hands-on activities. Behind the Parish Church, a small community garden has been developed to provide a training ground for those wanting to learn more about growing. There is also a small commercial kitchen available for hire by local food producers, particularly those who are looking to make the step up from home-based production. In May 2011, the first Tideswell Food Festival was held, attracting over 2,000 people, despite poor weather. On 7 September 2011, the ''Taste Tideswell'' story was broadcast as part of the ''Village SOS'' series on
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. It showed the rapid development of the project, along with the individual story of Tim Nicol, the 'Village Champion' who moved to live in Tideswell for a year and helped the volunteer directors get ''Taste Tideswell'' established. As of August 2011, ''Taste Tideswell'' employed eight members of staff, most of whom lived in the village, and had ten visiting chef/tutors on its books. Although the School of Food had to close, Tideswell's annual Food Festival has continued to be a success each year.


Facilities and activities

Tideswell Sports Complex was built in 2001 following a £1.2 million Sports Lottery grant and substantial fund-raising in the village. There are two football pitches, a floodlit multi-use area with two tennis courts and five-a-side pitches marked out, a cricket ground, crown-green bowling area, a skate-park and two pavilions. The town has a football team, Tideswell United, and they play in the Hope Valley League 'A' Division. They also run a reserve side competing in the Hope Valley League B Division as Tideswell United Blue Star. The ground has floodlights for midweek games, one of few sides at such a low level to use them. The bowling club competes in local leagues, the cricket and tennis clubs compete in local friendly matches. The village has a long theatrical tradition, Tideswell Theatre having been formed over 200 years ago to perform leading plays of the time. It was revived in 2002 to bring professional-quality theatre, music, dance and comedy to the area. Tideswell Community Players are one of the oldest drama groups in the country, formed in 1929. Until the 1960s the village also had its own cinema, The Picturehouse. Tideswell Cinema was revived in 2005 to bring film once more to the community, with screenings for three seasons at Bishop Pursglove School's hall, before relocating in 2008 to the upper storey of The George Hotel. A number of musical ensembles are also active in the village – notably Tideswell Male Voice Choir and The Tideswell Singers.


Notable people

*Sir Godfrey de Foljambe (1317–76),
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*Blessed Christopher Buxton, Catholic martyr, studied at Tideswell Grammar school under Nicholas Garlickpublic-domain
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of 1913
*
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, drummer of the blues/rock band
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, resides in Tideswell and participated in the male voice choir *Rev.
J. M. J. Fletcher The Reverend James Michael John Fletcher Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin), MA (University of Cambridge, Cantab.) (29 September 1852 – 23 February 1940), was an England, English clergyman of the Church of England, author and histori ...
(Vicar of Tideswell),
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*Blessed
Nicholas Garlick Nicholas Garlick (c. 1555 – 24 July 1588) was an English Catholic priest, martyred in Derby in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Early life He was born around 1555, near Dinting in Glossop, within the county of Derby. In January 1575 he m ...
, Catholic priest and martyr, was a schoolmaster here in the 16th century *
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, stunt flyer and three times world hang-gliding champion * William Newton, poet and philanthropist, was buried hereWilliam Newton at the
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now in the public domain
* Samuel Slack, notable bass singer born 1757 of local fame, reputedly sang before
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*A monument in the south transept of Tideswell parish church is doubtfully identified as that of Sir Thurstan de Bower *
Edwina Currie Edwina Currie (' Cohen; born 13 October 1946) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two year ...
, current President of the Tideswell Male Voice Choir * Robert Pursglove, sixteenth-century bishop, buried in Tideswell church


References


External links


Tideswell and District Community AssociationThe Village Voice – the village newsletterVisit Tideswell – accommodation for visitors and holiday makersPeak District Online – TideswellLink to interesting search of Google Books on Tideswell with several good books fully online mentioning Tideswell.
G4TIFF page images, plus poorly OCRed HTML. This has a lot of information on Tideswell during the 11th to 13th centuries. {{authority control Villages in Derbyshire Towns and villages of the Peak District Derbyshire Dales