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We have one parish, comprising four villages, each very different and unique. Scroll down to read more.

Buxton

Buxton Village HallBuxton is a bustling village with a pub, fish and chip shop, newsagent/post office, two playing fields, church and a school, which serves the whole parish.

Dudwick Park is a beautiful privately owned property where Anna Sewell once lived. The Heath, just off the Coltishall Road, contains a small cluster of houses around half a mile outside the main village.
The oldest house on the Heath is Dowry House, originally built around 1700 but much altered. Nearby is a small area of quite young trees, marking the site of the Buxton workhouse which was demolished ... and one can still find Gallows Hill half way along Sandy Lane!

The Bure Valley Railway passes through Buxton.

Lammas

You can spell Lammas with two Ms or one, depending on your fancy.

Lammas contains some 58 houses with a further 6 dwellings and farm on the fringe of the village at Stakebridge.

Lammas Church is described by Pevsner as being “in a lovely setting right on the bank of the River Bure”. The Church has a significant “weep” with the chancel slanting away from the nave. It possesses a ring of five bells which are in regular use. The Friends Meeting House in Lammas, burial place of the author Anna Sewell, later became a Methodist Chapel, then after some considerable time was converted into a dwelling with gravestones set in a boundary wall.

Little Hautbois

A lovely, tiny hamlet that sits to the south of Lammas. Currently consisting of 9 dwellings, there is evidence that it was once a much larger settlement. The name is believed to derive from the Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘tussocky meadow’ – a description of poor farmland that seems quite appropriate today. It used to sit in the parochial church parish of Lammas with Little Hautbois.

For its size, Little Hautbois has a high proportion of historic buildings; of the 9 houses, 3 are listed Grade 2, as are the barns behind Foxwood.

Badersfield

Only a small part of the village of Badersfield sits in our parish - the Barnby Road area. The rest sits in Scottow parish. The residents chose to be in Buxton with Lamas Parish in a referendum.