CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH, a market-town in the hundred of High Peake, in Derbyshire, on the borders of Chester, five miles from Buxton, and 166 from London. The market is held on Thursday. There are some cotton manufactures carried on in the town, and some lead mines near it. The population amounted in 1821 to 3234, and in 1831 to 3220.
CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH
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