Fritchley

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Fritchley is a small village in Derbyshire, England. It sits between Crich to the north and Ambergate to the south and is part of the Crich civil parish. To the east lies the ruin of a windmill. The village has an active Congregational Church and a Quaker meeting house. There is a pub called the Red Lion, but the post office closed in 2009. A steam rally is held in the village each August. In 1793 the Fritchley Tunnel was built under a public road as part of the Butterley Gangroad, the Butterley Company’s line to carry limestone from Crich to kilns on the Cromford Canal; it is the world’s oldest surviving railway tunnel. In February 2015 the tunnel was designated a scheduled monument. Fritchley was a filming location for Peak Practice, a TV series that ran from 1993 to 2002.