Chisworth
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Chisworth is a hamlet near Glossop, Derbyshire, England. It is south-west of Glossop town centre, on the south side of the Etherow valley. The parish of Chisworth was formed in 1896, out of the parish of Chisworth and Ludworth. In 1901, it had a population of 409. From 1896 until 1934 it was in the Glossop Rural District, when it was placed with Ludworth into the Chapel en le Frith Rural District. The village possesses a Methodist chapel. The A626 road passes through the hamlet. In June 1930, a local cloudburst caused flooding that killed one man and destroyed equipment at the mills, one of wh
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- England
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- Derbyshire UK parish map highlighting Chisworth.svg
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- Chisworth parish highlighted within Derbyshire
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- Chisworth
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- High Peak
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- Derbyshire
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- East Midlands
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- High Peak
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- GLOSSOP
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- SK13
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- SK995920
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- 229
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- Chisworth
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- Robin Hood's Picking Rods
- Kinderlee Mill
- Holehouse Mill
- Chew Wood Mill
- Lee Valley Bleach Works
- Coal
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Chisworth is a hamlet near Glossop, Derbyshire, England. It is south-west of Glossop town centre, on the south side of the Etherow valley. The parish of Chisworth was formed in 1896, out of the parish of Chisworth and Ludworth. In 1901, it had a population of 409. From 1896 until 1934 it was in the Glossop Rural District, when it was placed with Ludworth into the Chapel en le Frith Rural District. The village possesses a Methodist chapel. The A626 road passes through the hamlet. In June 1930, a local cloudburst caused flooding that killed one man and destroyed equipment at the mills, one of which never reopened. 500px|left|thumb|Panorama from the A626, over Kinderlee Mill and the Etherow valley
==Robin Hood's Picking Rods== Robin Hood's Picking Rods are a pair of cross shafts described by Historic England as "a wayside and a boundary cross" beside a bridleway at the southern extremity of the parish, thought to be Anglo-Saxon in date. Nearby is a cup-and-ring-marked rock, likely to date from the Bronze Age.
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