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Taddington sits high on the central limestone plateau of the White Peak alongside the A6 between Ashford-in-the-Water and Buxton and within the boundaries of the Peak National Park. It is one of England's highest villages at over 1100 feet and almost on a par with it's near neighbour Chelmorton, Derbyshire's highest village which lies 3 miles away to the south west across Taddington Moor. One of a cluster of similar villages within a five mile radius which includes Sheldon, Flagg, Blackwell and Chelmorton, Taddington's landscape is dominated by rocky limestone outcrops and surrounded by wild and windswept moorland. This hill village shows evidence of early Celtic farming, especially in the lynchetts, - (narrow terraces of land favoured by early hill farmers), - which are evident above Horse Stead, but Taddington actually takes it's name from an Saxon Chieftain called Tata who first settled here with his people after the Roman's left. The village has changed little over the years but the relative peace and quiet of it's singular isolation owes much to the re-siting of the main A6 trunk road which, before it was by-passed over half a century ago, ran directly through Taddington forming part of it's long sloping main street. Some of today's residents recall the noise, dust and fumes from the convoys of heavy lorries which used to grind tortuously up the hill through Taddington Dale and the centre of their village. Lorries still climb the hill, though today along a dual carriageway half a mile north west of the original turnpiked road from Ashford to Buxton, and once again, as for most of it's history, Taddington is at peace.
