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Market Place in Crich
Crich is a pretty village on the edge of the Peak District.
It was the location for filming the television programme 'Peak Practice.' The village is full of character and is set around a Market Place.
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Crich stand was built in its current form in 923. But it is thought that there have been four memorials on that site since Roman times.

A tramway was originally installed by George Stevenson to carry Limestone from Cliff quarry to the lime kilns at Ambergate. George Stevenson used to stay at the Wheatsheaf Inn in the village.

Electricity was first introduced into the village in 1924 along the Common to the Market Place.

In 1997 the Glebe Field Centre opened which is the village’s largest community centre. The centre has a fantastic range of facilities and aims to look after the needs of the community.

Crich was the setting for Peak Practice when the village was known as Cardale and the local fish and chip shop has taken its name from the series.

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tinyCrich is a Derbyshire village full of character, located on the border of the Peak National Park, eight miles North East of Derby.

The population of the village is 2242.

The name Crich seems to have evolved from the Celtic name for crag or hill ‘cryc’.

Crich is a stone built village and home of the National Tramways museum.

The village has a pretty market place surrounded by a good selection of local shops and pretty houses.

Crich stand is 1000 feet above sea level and commands the highest point overlooking the old quarry and tramway site.

It is a memorial to the soldiers of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment who have died in campaigns ever since the First World War.

St Mary’s church was built in the 12th century.

A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1765 and is believed to be the oldest of its kind in the country.

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