{{Short description|Village in Derbyshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |static_image_name = Foolow.jpg |static_image_caption = The village pond |country = England |coordinates = {{coord|53.2879|-1.7151|type:city_region:GB-DBY|display=inline,title}} |map_type = Derbyshire |official_name = Foolow |population = |shire_district = Derbyshire Dales | shire_county = Derbyshire |region = East Midlands |constituency_westminster = |post_town = HOPE VALLEY |postcode_district = S32 |postcode_area = S |dial_code = 01433 |os_grid_reference = SK191768 }}
'''Foolow''' (Old English possibly for "bird hill" or "colourful hill"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Derbyshire/Foolow|title=Foolow|work=Key to English Place-names|publisher=English Place Name Society at The University of Nottingham|accessdate = 18 August 2013}}</ref>) is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District. ==Village centre== The village green contains an ornate Grade II listed<ref name="NHLE">{{NHLE |num=1109996 |desc=Village Cross |grade=II |fewer-links= |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref> medieval cross, similar to the one at Wheston but possibly of later date. It has been suggested that it is 15th century.<ref name="NHLE" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101109996-village-cross-foolow|title=Village Cross, Foolow, Derbyshire|website=Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|accessdate=11 January 2019}}</ref> It is inscribed with the date 1868, when it was moved from the site of the Wesleyan Reform Chapel and its shaft was replaced. A former bull ring lies in front of the cross.<ref>{{cite book |first=Neville T. |last=Sharpe |title=Crosses of the Peak District |publisher=Landmark Collectors Library |date=2002}}</ref>
==Lead mining== South of the village, the Watergrove Mine was active from the 18th century until 1853. Water was a problem over this period; both soughs and pumping engines were used. In 1837 a Fairbrother beam engine was installed. Its 80 ft (24 m) chimney stood until 1960. There are hillocks in the north of the parish that mark the sites of other mines.<ref>{{cite book |first=Helen |last=Harris |title=Industrial archeology of the Peak District |publisher=David & Charles |date=1971}}</ref> There are also sinkholes present- the most recent appeared in late 2013- believed to result from mine workings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-25554549|title=Sinkhole opens in ground by village|date=30 December 2013|publisher=BBC}}</ref> It is probable that mining, whether for lead or other minerals, has been an occupation for the people of Foolow since at least the 15th century. Robert Roworth, of Folowe, a miner, appears as owing £4 to Thomas Calton of Chesterfield, in a legal record of 1470.<ref>{{cite web|title=Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 837|url=http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/E4/CP40no837/aCP40no837fronts/IMG_0142.htm|quotation=6th entry|website=Aalt.law.uh.edu|accessdate=11 January 2019}}</ref>
==See also== *Listed buildings in Foolow
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Category:Towns and villages of the Peak District Category:Villages in Derbyshire Category:Derbyshire Dales