Chelmorton
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Chelmorton is a village situated in the Peak National Park, the Derbyshire Dales and the White Peak. The village is often described as linear with medieval strip fields radiating horizontally from a main street, raising up a gradual hill.
[edit] Aspects to the Village
The village is small, but has a impressive Church, Saint John the Baptist and a lively pub, the Church Inn. These two monuments sit at the bottom of Chelmorton Low, the Rakes, and the source of village's tradition water supply; Illy Willy Water.
Although the village sits between Bakewell and Buxton, it perhaps has more affiliation to the latter. However, it's children are split between Harper Hill Primary School andBuxton Community School (in Buxton), and Monyash Primary School and Lady Manners School (towards Bakewell).
In recent years, the village has gone through a rapid change of openness and gentrification. More people now work outside the village (in the cities that surround the Peak District), commuting on a daily or weekly basis. This has arguably led a transition, that has undermined the village as an isulsar rural entity, with the closing of the Village Shop, Chelmorton Primary School, the conversion of previously redundant agricultural barns, and an increasingly gentrified consciousness.
