Peak District Online launches 49th Peak District Video - Hope in the Peak District!

Jan. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Hope (meaning "˜a valley') is one of the very few Derbyshire villages to be mentioned prior to the Domesday Survey of 1086, the earliest surviving record dates from a charter of 926 AD which tells that King Athelstan won a battle nearby, and purchased land at Ashford and Hope from a Dane. Hope is also unusual for having kept its name with the spelling unchanged for over a thousand years.

At the time of the Norman Conquest the Parish of Hope was one of the largest in England and one of the most important in Derbyshire, embracing two thirds of the Royal Forest of the High Peak, including Buxton, Tideswell and Chapel-en-le-Frith. The Parish covered almost forty thousand acres until it was greatly reduced in the 19th century by the creation of the separate parishes of Bradwell, Edale and Fairfield. Significantly, Hope was the only church in North Derbyshire mentioned in the Domesday Book.
There was a church here before the Norman Conquest on the same site that St. Peters Parish Church occupies today in the centre of the village, but of that early structure only the Norman font remained following the 14th century rebuilding which also saw the addition of the stubby broach-spire. The chancel was rebuilt in late Victorian times and the building was re-roofed in the 1970's.

to view the Hope video please visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t94T8GytUs



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