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Idridgehay

This pleasant village is pronounced ‘Ithersee’ by the locals and it lies in the valley of the River Ecclesbourne. Formerly a working rural village, it is now purely residential. The area is also part of a conservation scheme including the half-timbered building, South Sitch. The date above the door, 1621, may refer to alterations carried out to a much older building. The apparent Elizabethan mansion, Alton Manor, was in fact built by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1846, when he moved from Darley Dale because of the coming of the railway.

Idridgehay’s most prominent building is the Parish Church of St James, built in the early 1840s and consecrated in 1845. George Turner the Victorian landscape painter from Barrow on Trent is buried here, as is Sir Peter Hilton, a former incumbent of the manor house.

Available Guidebooks for this region:

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The Hidden Places of the Peak District and Derbyshire

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the Heart of England

This guidebook covers Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

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