Hope Woodlands

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Hope Woodlands
Civil parish
Farm river ashop.jpg
Blackden Barn near the River Ashop
Derbyshire UK parish map highlighting Hope Woodlands.svg
Hope Woodlands highlighted within Derbyshire
Coordinates: 53°24′N1°47′W / 53.40°N 1.79°W / 53.40; -1.79 Coordinates: 53°24′N1°47′W / 53.40°N 1.79°W / 53.40; -1.79
CountryEngland
County Derbyshire
Region East Midlands
Status Civil parish
Government
  Type Parish Council (jointly with Derwent)
   UK Parliament High Peak
Population
  Total68

Hope Woodlands is an extensive civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire in England.

The parish covers the Woodlands Valley, the western Upper Derwent Valley, the northern half of Kinder Scout and much of Bleaklow. The only habitations in the parish are remote farms, forming small clusters at Upper Ashop and Alport. According to the 2001 UK census, the parish had a population of 68 people.

Socialist and suffragette Hannah Mitchell was born here in 1872. [2]

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References

  1. 2001 UK census
  2. Purvis, June (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.