Tupton is a village and

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, England, south of Chesterfield. The population of the civil parish -- including Egstow and

Old Tupton Old Tupton is a village in Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to t ...

-- was 3,428 at the 2011 Census . It lies just north of

Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield. It is directly ...

on the A61 (

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Road) which runs from Chesterfield to

Alfreton Alfreton ( or locally ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The town was formerly a Norman Manor and later an Urban District. The population of the Alfreton parish was 8,79 ...

. It comprises the areas of Old Tupton and New Tupton. However, it is generally referred to as Tupton. A similarly named area, Tapton, is a few miles away, part of Chesterfield. The village has a

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school, and a secondary school with a

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. Tupton also has two general stores, a post office, hair dresser, tanning studio, building supplies, tyre services, multiple garages, car repair centres, preschool nursery, three pubs, one club, a fish and chip shop, a nursing home, a coffee house and a pharmacy. There is a Methodist church near the A61 and St John's Church of England Church and Hall on Queen Victoria Road, opposite the Primary School. The church building is late nineteenth century with a modern interior and is part of the North Wingfield Team Parish. Tupton Ivanhoe FC and Tupton RFC are the leading sports clubs. A footpath runs alongside the rugby club pitches to the Avenue Washlands Nature Reserve. Other settlements near the village are

Wingerworth Wingerworth is a large village and parish in North East Derbyshire, England. Its population, according to the 2011 census, was 6,533. Wingerworth is southwest of Chesterfield, south of Sheffield and north of London. Tupton, Clay Cross, Gra ...

Grassmoor Grassmoor is a village in Derbyshire, England, approximately three miles to the south of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield its distance from London is 148.5 miles. Its original name, according to 16th-century parish records, was ''Gresmore ...

and

North Wingfield North Wingfield is a large village and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district in the county of Derbyshire, England. Located approximately 4½ miles south-east of Chesterfield, and 1 mile north-east of Clay Cross. The population of t ...

. A carnival called the Tupton Carnival is a yearly event held on a Saturday in July. This was first started in 2003 and has grown in size and attendance as the years have gone by. A young lady is elected Carnival Queen and travels through the village attended by the carnival princes and princesses and is followed by a procession of floats, bands, and fancy dress participants. The parade ends on the Primary school field for an afternoon of fun and live music, with stalls, displays, and various competitions. Tupton has also seen new development around Ankerbold Road, which runs on the outer edge of the village, close to North Wingfield. A large modern housing estate has been built around the Pond Lane proximity, as well as recent housing to the south. Tupton also has the

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passing straight through it. At the bottom of Station New Road, there is a bridge crossing over the track into North Wingfield; this was the location of Clay Cross railway station. It is also known that Tupton has been a settlement since

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times, as the historic

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runs directly through the village. The locality was formerly known as "Topetune" and "Tuphome." Tupton is shown on the C. Smith New Map of Great Britain and Ireland in 1806 and on the first

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maps, Tupton Moor, Tupton Over Wood and Tupton Hall are shown.

Bombing raid of 1941

The area known as 'the Rec' once held a lido, or open-air swimming pool, the remains of which can still be seen in the stream. During the

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, several houses in Tupton were bombed by fleeing German aircraft. Some of these houses were on Ward Street and others in demolished areas where the Community Garden is now located. It is known 11 people died in the raid on the morning of 15 March 1941. Despite local rumours, a large crater in the nearby woods, nicknamed "Monkey Hollow", was not caused by a bomb dropped during this raid. In fact it used to be the location of an air raid shelter for Clay Cross Works. Once the war was over, the shelter was demolished and the crater left unfilled.

People from Tupton

Jim Hutchinson James Metcalf Hutchinson (29 November 1896 – 7 November 2000) was an English first-class cricketer who played more than 250 matches for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1931. Until September 2018, when John Manners took the re ...

, who played first-class cricket for

and lived to the age of 103 * The

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player John Lowe was born in Tupton in 1945 *

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M.P. attended school here *

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, darts player was born in Calgary

Bombing raid of 1941

People from Tupton

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