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Buxton and High Peak Golf Club

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15th Fairway at Buxton and High Peak Golf Course
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Buxton and High Peak Golf Club at Fairfield near Buxton in Derbyshire opened in 1887. The course is 5,993 yards (5,480 m) long with a par of 69. It is the oldest golf course in Buxton and one of the oldest in Derbyshire.Peak Practice golf driving range at Barms Farm is located next to the course. The A6 road runs across the course and golfers have to make their way across to reach the 8th to 10th holes. Buxton and High Peak Golf Club was founded in 1887. The nine-hole course on Barms Common (now known as Fairfield Common) was designed by John Morris from Hoylake. Local architect William Radford Bryden won the inaugural championship. The course was extended to 18 holes in 1893. The club rented the land from the Borough Council, which had agreed to buy the grazing rights on Fairfield Common from the local farmers. Jack Simpson (winner of the 1884 Open Championship) was recruited as the club's first golf professional. The clubhouse, funded by debentures, was built in 1905 on Waterswallows Road. Edward Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington (heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire), presented a competition trophy to the club and the Hartington Cup has been played for since 1920.The 9th par 5 hole is called Standside, which refers to where the grandstand of Buxton Racecourse once stood. The horse racing track was laid out on the common in the early 1800s. From 1821 race meetings were held each year in June. The Duke of Devonshire commissioned a grandstand building which stood in the 1830s. Buxton racecourse closed in 1840 and the grandstand was pulled down.In 1899 the Ladies Golf Club's nine hole course was set out on Temple Meads (which was developed as a housing estate in the 1960s). Cavendish Golf Club is the other remaining golf course in Buxton and it was opened in 1925.

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Staden, Derbyshire
Staden, Derbyshire

Staden is a small hamlet (of just a few buildings) on the southern outskirts of Buxton, Derbyshire, lying between Harpur Hill and Cowdale. It was occupied in Neolithic, Roman and medieval times. Staden is close to the limestone hilltop of Staden Low whose summit is 367 m (1,204 ft) above sea level.Staden Low prehistoric earthwork is in a field on the western side of Staden Low hill. It is in the form of a slightly raised circular bank (over 50m across) with a smaller adjoining rectangular bank (which is a unique enclosure feature of British henges). Neolithic artefacts were discovered during excavations in 1926 by Mr R. Woolescroft, including a polished stone axe head and many fragments of knapped flint. Further excavations by Dr G. Makepeace in the 1980s uncovered Neolithic pottery sherds and pieces of deer antlers. The finds are on display in Buxton Museum. The site is a protected Scheduled Monument. Aerial LIDAR image of Staden Enclosure by the Environment Agency. Staden is one mile south of the Roman town of Aquae Arnemetiae (Roman Buxton) and there was a Roman farm at Staden (around the present Colt Croft Farm). The fields around Staden have rich volcanic soils for farming. Excavations by Dr Makepeace in the 1980s found the platforms of several buildings, walls, field enclosure banks, quern grinding stones, pottery, animal bones and jewellery. The potter's stamp of Sepuminus dates the pottery to 100–130 AD. A hypocaust tile found in the farm house demonstrates that it had an underfloor heating system. The stone platform of a 12th-century medieval longhouse (22m long) was also identified at the same site in 1989. Documents record Staden as a farming settlement in 1101 AD.There are the remains of an old quarry and lime kiln immediately south of the hilltop.In 1896 Buxton Cemetery on Ashbourne Road was consecrated on 12 acres of land on Staden Moor. The gothic-style cemetery building (with a central archway and a mortuary chapel on either side), the caretaker's house and the registrar's office were designed by the town surveyor Joseph Hague. The tombstone of the Buxton archaeologist Micah Salt from 1915 is a replica of the Anglo-Saxon cross in Eyam cemetery and it is a Grade II listed structure.The new Buxton fire station and rescue centre (opened in 2011) and Staden industrial estate are on the A515 road past the cemetery. Buxton Brewery was established in 2009 and is based on Staden Lane.The Midshires Way and the Peak District Boundary Walk long-distance footpaths run along the same west–east route through Staden.

Buxton Racecourse
Buxton Racecourse

Buxton Racecourse was a horse racing track in the 19th century on Fairfield Common near Buxton in Derbyshire, England. In 1804 an earlier racecourse field was recorded at Heathfield Nook, on the other side of Buxton town.Fairfield Common was established centuries ago as common grazing land. A racecourse was laid out on the common in the early 1800s. From 1821 racing and county cock fighting meetings were held each summer. The 6th Duke of Devonshire commissioned a grandstand building costing £1,000 which stood in the 1830s. The race programme for the meeting on 16th-17th June 1830 lists the Duke of Devonshire's Gold Cup race, The Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Subscription Plate race and the Farmers' Stakes race. That year a mass riot and fight broke out. Pigot's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire of 1835 reported:"On a large tract of waste ground, an excellent round course is formed, where horse-races take place on the Wednesday and Thursday in the week after the meeting at Newton-in-the-Willows; and it is provided with a handsome stand for the accommodation of visitors."The racecourse closed after the last race meeting in 1840 and the grandstand was subsequently pulled down. Timbers from the stand were reused in the building of the Methodist Chapel at Higher Buxton in 1849. The racetrack's grandstand is shown on the 1841 tithe map of Fairfield and the track itself is shown on an old OS map from c.1830s.Buxton and High Peak Golf Club was founded in 1887, after a nine-hole course was laid out on Fairfield Common in 1886. The course was extended to 18 holes in 1893. The 9th par 5 hole is called Stand Side, which refers to where the racecourse grandstand once stood. Another local race track is Buxton Raceway, which is a modern oval motorsport track 3 miles south of Buxton. Racing started at the site in 1974 when it was known as 'High Edge'.