Derbyshire residents fear their Peak District community is at risk of becoming a “ghost village”
The little village of Over Haddon sits just south of Bakewell and has a population of around 250 people, living in 110 households, with lofty views over Lathkill Dale. However, one in four of these properties are either holiday lets (21) or second homes (eight) for people who live elsewhere for at least the majority of the […]
In search of Sir Maurice Oldfield in the Peak village of Over Haddon
Picturesque Over Haddon may be one of Derbyshire’s smallest settlements but, as Mike Smith discovers, it has fascinating stories to tell. Who would have guessed that one of the eleven children of Joseph Oldfield, a tenant farmer in the small Peak District village of Over Haddon, would progress from these humble beginnings to become Britain’s […]
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