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gave the manor of Glossop to the monks, and they gained a

market charter 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 rura ...

for Glossop in 1290, and one for Charlesworth in 1328. In 1433 the monks leased all of

Glossopdale Glossopdale is the area around Glossop, Derbyshire, England, the valley of the Glossop Brook. It includes Glossop, Hadfield, Charlesworth, Dinting, Dinting Vale, Higher Dinting, Padfield, Old Glossop, Whitfield and Gamesley See also *List of ...

to the Talbot family, later

Earls of Shrewsbury Earl of Shrewsbury () is a hereditary title of nobility created twice in the Peerage of England. The second earldom dates to 1442. The holder of the Earldom of Shrewsbury also holds the title of Earl of Waterford (1446) in the Peerage of Ireland ...

. It is close to the town of

Glossop Glossop is a market town in the borough of High Peak (borough), High Peak, Derbyshire, England, east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of Matlock, Derbyshire, Matlock. Near Derbyshire's borders with Cheshire, Greater Mancheste ...

in the High Peak borough of the English county of

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, on the so-called Monks Road, near the entrance track to Taiga Farm. The monks used this route in order to reach Hayfield,

Simmondley Simmondley is a small village near the town of Glossop in Derbyshire, England. The population of the High Peak ward at the 2011 Census was 4,727. It has one pub, the Hare and Hounds, in the south of the village at the top of Simmondley Lane. T ...

and other villages.

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