About Taddington Village
Taddington sits high on the central limestone plateau of the White Peak alongside the A6 between Ashford-in-the-Water and Buxton and within the boundaries of the Peak National Park. It is one of England’s highest villages at over 1100 feet and almost on a par with it’s near neighbour Chelmorton, Derbyshire’s highest village which lies 3 miles away to the south west across Taddington Moor.
One of a cluster of similar villages within a five mile radius which includes Sheldon, Flagg, Blackwell and Chelmorton, Taddington’s landscape is dominated by rocky limestone outcrops and surrounded by wild and windswept moorland.
The splendid broach spire of the Parish Church of St. Michael & All Angels is the dominant feature in Taddington and the church, set in it’s handsome surroundings has invited praise from Pevsner who wrote that it was “ambitiously rebuilt early in the 14th century, inspired perhaps by Tideswell”?
The Queens Arms is the social centre of the village and the sole survivor of several pubs and stands next to the rather sobering Primitive Methodist Chapel of 1903 at the top of Chapel Lane.
The oldest dwelling is probably Taddington Hall, standing with it’s gable end to the street and it’s Georgian front hidden behind trees at the bottom end of Main Street near Town End.
