Hargate Wall

Hargate Wall
Hargate Wall
OS grid reference	SK118752
District	High Peak;
Shire county	Derbyshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BUXTON
Postcode district	SK17
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
	List of places UK England Derbyshire

Hargate Wall is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England, situated northeast of Buxton and now part of Wormhill.

The name Hargate Wall derives from Old English Herdwyk-waella, meaning "herd farm by the spring",^[1] so the first settlement was probably around AD 700–950.

The hamlet now consists of several cottages, farms and property called Hayward Farm and Hargate Hall (completed and lived in by Robert Whitehead).

On the edge of Hargate Wall is a Neolithic barrow known as Wind Low (53°16′24″N 1°49′48″W / 53.2733°N 1.8299°W / 53.2733; -1.8299 (Wind Low)). Excavations have revealed the remains of a Neolithic chieftain and his family, a female member of a Celtic tribe and a Celtic necklace which is now in the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield.^[2]

References

^ K. Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire, English Place-Name Society 27–29 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1959).
^ C. Drewry, Wormhill: The History of a High Peak Village (Little Longstone: Ashridge Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-901214-82-6

53°16′25″N 1°49′26″W / 53.2735°N 1.8238°W / 53.2735; -1.8238

[1] K. Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire, English Place-Name Society 27–29 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1959).

[2] C. Drewry, Wormhill: The History of a High Peak Village (Little Longstone: Ashridge Press, 2007). ISBN 978-1-901214-82-6

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