Rushop

Rushop
Derbyshire
Rushop Hall
Location
Grid reference:	SK094825
Location:	53°20’24"N, 1°51’36"W
Data
Post town:	High Peak
Postcode:	SK23
Dialling code:	01298
Local Government
Council:	High Peak

Rushop otherwise written Rushup is a tiny hamlet in northern Derbyshire, within the Peak District in the fells east of Chapel-en-le-Frith.

Agriculture has until recently been the main occupation in the village. At present very few of the residents work in Rushop and several of the houses are second homes only occupied at weekends and holidays.

There is archaeological and documentary evidence that there was a settlement at this site since before the Roman invasion of Britain.

The nature of the land in the Dark Ages is unrecorded, but the abundance of British-language placenames in the valley (bearing such elements as 'Eccles', 'Inch' and 'Pen') and a relative lack of Anglo-Saxon names suggests a survival here of native Britons within the surrounding Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

The Pennine Bridleway long-distance route runs through the hamlet.

References

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