Buxton Hall

Buxton Local History Society

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To find out more about our projects see below:  

Research projects

The Society is happy to undertake small research projects on behalf of people who have connections with the town or who have visited and been curious about some aspect of it’s past.  To see  brief summaries of enquiries received. [Click here]  UPDATED MARCH 24.


The Pavilion Gardens Project – 2018.

The Pavilion Gardens were laid out by Edward Milner in 1871, but what was the history of the site before that date?

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Pavilion Gardens, Buxton October 18

War Memorials Project. October 2016

Do you know where this Buxton memorial to WW2 dead is located?

The Society has recently been invited by Civic Voice to participate in a project to locate and record the condition of all war memorials in the UK…………………………To continue reading the full article press here

War memorial at what was Kent's Bank School. It is now the Social Services & Library.