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The Whaley Bridge Chronicle
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Community-focused hyper-local public information service for Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, UK.
News, events, jobs, property listings, volunteer opportunities and more.
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FREE LANTERN-MAKING WORKSHOP TODAY
It's your last chance to create a stunning lantern from paper and willow!
All tuition and materials are provided by the Friends of Memorial Park and Whaley4Wards volunteers. Dress warmly and expect to get messy! Everybody is welcome!
#WhaleyWhatsOn #WhaleyChristmas
A poster shows illuminated lanterns in the shape of a star and gives the details of the workshop: Sunday 23rd November from 1pm till 3:30pm at the Transhipment Warehouse. The event is free.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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MISSING HAVING A GREENGROCER'S IN WHALEY BRIDGE?
Do you know that Hockerley Hall Farm shop is only a stone's throw from the town centre?
It sells locally-produced eggs, dairy produce, fruit and veg and more.
39 Hockerley Lane, SK23 7AU.
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#WhaleyShops #ShopLocal
The image is a screenshot of the text in a social media post, dated 29 October. It says: 'We have a fridge now, and we are starting with fresh farm milk. Other dairy products will be coming soon. Free range eggs and produce as always.'
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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APPEAL FOR FOOD BANK SUPPLIES
Whaley Bridge Food Bank is asking for regular donations of household essentials, including toilet tissue and long life milk. Please take anything you can offer to the Transhipment Warehouse in Whaley Bridge canal basin.
#WhaleyBridge
#FoodBank #WhaleyKindness
Cardboard boxes containing green cartons of long life semi skimmed milk sit on top of a table. In the background are more food supplies, including white and brown bread rolls and a packet of small cakes.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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MAKE A CHILD A WHALEY BRIDGE VIP!
Buy something from a collaborating business at the November FAB Market and enter a child's name, to be in with a chance for them to switch on the town's Christmas lights on the 29th of November.
#WhaleyWhatsOn
#WhaleyChristmas
#WhaleyBridge #FestiveMarket #HighPeak
A bright green poster states that the FAB (Food and Arts at the Basin) market will be held on the 8th of November, at Whaley Bridge Canal basin, between 10am and 4pm. An email address to contact the market organisers is at the bottom of the poster. The address is: markets@whaleybridgecanal.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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PUBLIC MEETING TO PRESENT SURVEY FINDINGS
The Visit Whaley team will present the results of the recent public opinion survey which gathered ideas from local people for improving our high street. All residents are invited to the Bowling Club on Tue 28th at 7pm. #WhaleyRegen #WhaleyBusiness
The poster includes a photo of Whaley Bridge railway station. The poster's text reads: Whaley Bridge Residents' Meeting 28th October 2025 Whaley Bridge Bowling Club 7pm to 8:30pm DJS Research will be presenting the results of the recent survey All welcome Please arrive in time as we plan to start promptly There will be the opportunity to ask questions and volunteer ideas about how we use the survey results The meeting will be hosted by Cllr Ruth George and the Visit Whaley team: Ali Sims, Danielle Bromley, Alex Noden.
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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FANTASTIC TURNOUT FOR STONE PAINTING FOR PEACE WORKSHOP
The new We Welcome Group invited everyone at the Whaley Bridge FAB Market on Saturday to paint messages of love, peace and welcome onto white marble pebbles, which people could keep or donate to the initiative's art trail.
#WelcomingWhaley
A group of ten white stones is depicted; each painted in bright colours with positive messages of love, peace, kindness and inclusivity. The designs include slogans which say 'Be Kind,' 'Whaley Welcomes You,' and 'All You Need Is Love.' The images include hearts, rainbows, flowers, and hands reaching out to each other.
October 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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WHALEY BRIDGE REMEMBRANCE SERVICES - 2025
#WhaleyRemembers #WhaleyRespect #WeWillRememberThem
Royal British Legion, Whaley Bridge Town Council and Churches Together Supported by Whaley Bridge Brass Band Remembrance Sunday 9th November 2025. Bridgemont Memorial – 9.30am. Act of remembrance Furness Vale Memorial – 10am. Act of remembrance Whaley Bridge Uniting Church – joint service 10.45am Whaley Bridge Memorial Park – joint service 10.45am All are invited to Uniting Church for refreshments afterwards
October 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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PLANNING APPLICATION - WHALEY BRIDGE
Public comments are still being invited on a retrospective application seeking consent for a 25ft long raised garden platform, already built, on 6ft high posts in a residential area. Comments on application HPK/2025/0212 can be made here: tinyurl.com/79m7mts8
A gargantuan timber structure, resembling a stockade, towers just beyond an open-weave chain link fence. The edifice looms oppressively over a small neat informal garden patio in the foreground, which has on it a round wooden table with pots of flowers at its centre, and a pair of matching chairs. The patio is dwarfed by the building and lies in its shadow. Small coloured lightbulbs hang in a row along the bannisters of a flight of steps which lead to a lawned area, accommodating a large tree, beyond the patio. The sky above is cloudy and grey. The dark underside of the structure yawns like a cave to the side of the patio, with the void extending high above the ground, creating an ominous space in contrast to the welcoming nature of the seating area. The overall impression is of a country cottage garden set below a pier or prison watchtower.
September 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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HIGH ATTENDANCE AT SWIFT EVENT
There was great turnout for last night's guided walk by artist & swift expert Deb Pitman, who has set up a local swift group to conduct regular surveys to log nest sites and supply nesting boxes.
If you'd like to join the group, email whaleychronicle@rowancreative.com
A woman wearing a pink high visibility vest and holding a photograph of a swift in flight, addresses a crowd of people on the pavement on Whaley Bridge high street. The group is of mixed ages: from children to seniors. They are all paying attention as the woman speaks to them.
July 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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TRADE AND TOURISM REVITALISATION MEETING ATTRACTS HIGH ATTENDANCE
The inaugural session for the Community Brainstorm for Whaley Bridge Trade and Tourism filled the meeting room at Uniting Church last night, and a very productive discussion was held between local business owners and the public.
A vibrant high street is decorated with coloured bunting and filled with people, lining its pavements, in preparation for the annual Whaley Bridge carnival.
July 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The Whaley4Wards volunteer group is appealing for donations of wildflower seeds to sow on the Linear Path that runs behind the Cock pub up to Horwich End.
If you can spare any seeds, please could you donate them by dropping them off at Footsteps Whaley Bridge, 14 Market St.
Many thanks, SK23 7LP. 💚
June 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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FAB MARKET TODAY!
Local traders, selling arts, crafts, food, drink and more!
Don't forget to check out the preloved book shop in the Transhipment Warehouse too, and if you can spare a donation for the food bank, you can drop that off at the warehouse.
#WhaleyWhatsOn
Food and arts at the basin, Whaley. Saturday 10th May 10am to 4pm.
May 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Air quality remains poor in Whaley Bridge due to the ongoing moorland fire near Errwood reservoir.
The Cat and Fiddle Road, where firefighters have been tackling the substantial blaze since yesterday morning, is open, but drivers are advised to use the route with care as crews are operating there.
A helicopter carries a large bag of water beneath it. Behind are some tall pine trees, half-obscured by smoke. Photo credit: Les Eckersley.
May 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Today is #NationalGardeningDay.
What does your garden in Whaley Bridge look like at the moment on this glorious sunny spring morning?
#WhaleyBridge
April 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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We recommend a visit to the Village Kitchen, just a few doors down, too.
It has award-winning breakfasts, and cakes, and pastries that are scrumptious works of art. In good weather there's are two charming decked areas to the rear, next to the river.
30 Market St, Whaley Bridge, High Peak SK23 7LP.
Shop front of the Village Kitchen café in Whaley Bridge. The shop has a traditional appearance; painted in soft grey and cream. A chalk board outside lists the day's savoury meal specials, and through the window can be glimpsed a display of pretty china teapots. In the foreground, a silver foil balloon with 'Happy Birthday' written on it, is tied to a lamppost, celebrating the business' first anniversary of trading.
January 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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MISSING HAVING A GREENGROCER'S IN WHALEY BRIDGE?
Do you know that Hockerley Hall Farm shop is only a stone's throw from the town centre?
It sells locally-produced fresh eggs and fruit and veg.
Find it at 39 Hockerley Lane, Whaley Bridge, High Peak SK23 7AU.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Four-panel graphic of photos depicting life in and around Whaley Bridge. The first shows an old farm house with a stone-tiled roof in the foreground and the Northern side of the village on the hill behind it. The second shows a metal ladder over a grey dam wall, with Toddbrook reservoir gleaming beyond it. The third shows the front of Whaley Bridge Town Hall: a yellow stone building, decked with red white and blue bunting, and hanging baskets containing flowers in the same colours either side of the dark blue wooden doors. A clock is mounted on a wrought iron-edged balcony above the door. The final photo shows the junction of Old Road and Buxton Road in the centre of the village, with pretty stone shops flanking the road which leads uphill. It's sunny, and the sky above is blue.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL GRITTING UPDATES
Find out if your road is on a gritting route and when it was last gritted.
tinyurl.com/mvp5ya7b
#WhaleyWeather
Section of a map, showing an aerial view of the Derbyshire town of Whaley Bridge, with primary and secondary gritter lorry routes superimposed over the depicted roads. Only a handful of major arterial routes are covered, in this case: Buxton Road, Macclesfield Road, Whaley Lane and 4 residential streets in the Stoneheads region of the town.
January 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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GRITTER ROUTES FOR WHALEY BRIDGE
During this cold snap, many residents are experiencing difficulty driving due to hazardous conditions.
Not all roads are gritted.
Find out if your road is on a gritting route and when it was last gritted on the Derbyshire County Council website: tinyurl.com/mvp5ya7b
A man scrapes ice from the windows of a red car on a snowy, ice-bound road, flanked by stone buildings and parked cars and a motorbike, under a dark grey sky, in which a weak low sun is struggling to appear. Twin black streaks of tyre tracks lead along the centre of the road towards a junction. No traffic is moving. In the far distance at the end of the road, a flatbed lorry, loaded with yellow plastic pathway closure barriers, can just be glimpsed. Beside it on the pavement is a red and white 'Footway Closed' sign.
January 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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WHALEY WARM SPACES
With energy prices rocketing, many people are struggling to heat their homes.
Many local venues are opening their doors to the public to offer a place where you can get warm, including Footsteps café, & Whaley Bridge Uniting Church (pictured).
#WhaleyWellbeing
Two comfy-looking chairs next to a small table bearing a lamp which is casting a warm glow. This is the warm spaces area at the Uniting Church at 35A Buxton Road in Whaley Bridge. Footsteps is at 14 Market Street.
January 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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What a great, thought-provoking piece.
We ourselves wish we could visit the former Plough Boy pub, on the old road to Whaley Bridge. Dylan Thomas frequented the inn whilst (infamously) staying at the Disley home of Margaret and A.J.P. Taylor in 1935.
Sadly the pub closed permanently in 2015.
Small white-painted pub, with Georgian windows, set back slightly from the road.
December 31, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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NEW JUJITSU CLASSES STARTING NEXT MONTH
Wednesdays, 4:30pm and 6pm. At Holy Trinity Church, 46 Buxton Rd, Whaley Bridge, High Peak SK23 7JE.
£6-£9 per session.
See:
m.facebook.com/profile.php?... for details.
#WhaleyWhatsOn #WhaleySport
Poster which says: Come and join us at BKJJA Whaley Bridge! Where? Holy Trinity Church, SK23 7JE. When? Wednesdays (starting 8th Jan). Time? 5-16 yrs 4:30pm. Women only (11 yrs+) 4:30pm. Mixed adults 6pm.
December 29, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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VACANCY FOR TOWN COUNCILLOR
A vacancy has arisen in the ward of Furness Vale in the office of Councillor for Whaley Bridge Town Council. This vacancy will be filled by election or co-option.
www.whaleybridgetowncouncil.gov.uk/news/2024/12...
December 23, 2024 at 9:38 AM