Rushop

Rushop
Rushop Hall
Rushop  Rushop shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK094825
District	High Peak
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HIGH PEAK
Postcode district	SK23
Dialling code	01298
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
List of places UK England Derbyshire

Coordinates: 53°20′N 1°52′W / 53.34°N 1.86°W

Rushop or Rushup^[1] is a small North Derbyshire village. The population is included in the town of Chapel-en-le-Frith. Agriculture has until recently been the main occupation in the village. At present very few of the residents work in Rushop and several of the houses are second homes only occupied at weekends and holidays.

The village church of St Cuthbert dates from the mid-17th century, but excavations in the 1840s revealed a much older building possibly the 10th-century church erected to the king and saint Pabo Post Prydain.

There is archaeological and documentary evidence that there was a settlement at this site since before the Roman invasion of Britain. The settlement is alleged to have been a British village, under nominal Anglo Saxon rule after the fall of the area to Angles from Bernicia around 590, mainly due to the lack of Anglo Saxon placenames in the valley and the presence of names, such as Eccles, Inch and Pen-, which have origins in a Brythonic language of Britain.

References

1. Marked as "Rushop" on the modern Ordnance Survey map and the house sign, but all the nearby features sharing this name (Rushup Farm, Rushup Edge etc.) use the "Rushup" spelling, as does the 1940s map.