Brushfield

Brushfield
High Dale, Brushfield.
Brushfield parish highlighted within Derbyshire
Population	13
OS grid reference	SK158714
District	Derbyshire Dales
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
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Brushfield is a hamlet and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, in the Peak District National Park. ^{[1] [2]} It is about 8 miles east of Buxton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 13. In 2007 it had just three houses. Several holiday lets are run by two separate families. One of these cottages is called the 'Old School House', a small one-bed house of stone.

There are three scheduled monuments in the parish: bowl barrows at Brushfield Hough ^[3] and Putwell Hill ^[4] and High Field hlǣw , a rare pre-Christian burial monument dating from around 600AD. ^[5]

References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 119 Buxton & Matlock (Chesterfield, Bakewell & Dove Dale) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN   9780319231890.
2. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
3. Historic England. "Brushfield Hough bowl barrow (1008814)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 12 September 2020.
4. Historic England. "Putwell Hill bowl barrow (1008816)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
5. Historic England. "High Field hlaew (1008818)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

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