Fairfield is an urban area of Buxton

Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Located close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park"...

 in Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

, located half a mile to the North-East from Buxton town centre

Town centre

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. It is centred around the "Green" a village green

Village green

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History

Once a chapelry

Chapelry

A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England, and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel which acted as a subsidiary place of worship to the main parish church...

, in the parish of Hope, Derbyshire

Hope, Derbyshire

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, Fairfield was at one time a town in its own right, complete with town council and Town Hall, the Town Hall still survives on Old Post Road, and remains in use for the publics' benefit. Fairfield remained an urban sanitary district

Sanitary district

Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures:*Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies...

  until 1894.

In the early 19th century there was recorded an "excellent round course has been formed, where horse races take place". Race meetings where held at a place called "Newton ith' Willows", where there was a stand

Stand

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 for visitors.
In 1811, 1821 and 1831 the population of the chapelry of Fairfield returned a population of 482 inhabitants taken in the census

Census

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Famous residents

George Kitchen

George Kitchen

George Kitchen was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for various clubs in the early part of the twentieth century, including long spells at Everton and West Ham United.-Football career:...

, the Everton, West Ham United and Southampton goalkeeper was born in Fairfield in 1876.