Description
Fairfield, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Derbyshire, near the Buxton railway, 1 mile ENE of Buxton, with a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Buxton; telegraph office, Buxton. Acreage, 3979 ; population of the township, 3854; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3817. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £200 with residence. Patrons, Trustees. The church was rebuilt in 1839. It was restored and enlarged in 1889, and a new organ erected in 1893. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built 1887-88. An endowed school, erected in 1862, has about £90 per annum. The district is governed by a local board.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
