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Place NameHope
Place TypeSettlement
ParishHope
Grid RefSK1683
HundredEurope
CountyDerbyshire
Electoral DivisionNorth (1832-1885)
High Peak (1885-)
Local AuthorityChapel-en-le-Frith Rural District Council
Registration DistrictHigh Peak (1837-1838)
Chapel-en-le-Frith (1838-1974)
High Peak (1974-2013)
Petty Sessional DivisionChapel-en-le-Frith
County Court DivisionChapel en le Frith
UK GSS CodeE04002852 - High Peak Borough (2016)
CountryUnited Kingdom, England
NotesA village and civil parish in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, situated in the Hope Valley at the confluence of the River Noe and Peakshole Water. It has a long history of settlement and contains historic features including the medieval Church of St Peter, Hope Motte and a Bronze Age burial mound known as The Folly.

Ancient parish. Ecclesiastical parish includes the townships of Aston, Brough and Shatton, Highlow, Offerton, Thornhill and part of Hope Woodlands. Formerly included Bradwell, Abney and Abney Grange, Grindlow, Hazelbadge, Great Hucklow, Little Hucklow and part of Wardlow (all of which were included in new chapelry of Bradwell in 1868), most of Hope Woodlands (added to the new parish of Derwent Woodlands in 1871), Fernilee (which transferred to the parish of Buxton in 1898), the townships of Nether Padley and Stoke (which transferred to parish of Eyam in 1911). Also formerly included chapelry of Fairfield (which became a separate parish in 1852).

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