The stocks are thought to possibly date from the time of Oliver Cromwell; the market cross at Chapel may have originated as a preaching cross; the horse trough was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and the war memorial that lists all the local men who served in the First World War, rather than simply those who died in battle, this is very unusual.
The war memorial at Dove Holes also commemorates the fallen in both World Wars.

 

At the present time, the Market Place in Chapel is served by no fewer than four inns, but there is evidence of many more – there is an inscription on the wall of the local post office, (the name of a former inn incorporated into the name of a cottage, and a bull’s head on a house near the church gates). This high concentration of inns is evidence of Chapel-en-le-Frith’s historical importance as a stopping place on routes across the Pennines. Salt carriers from Cheshire, cattle drovers and stagecoach passengers all broke their journey for respite breaks in the town.

Chapel’s role in the history of transport goes beyond its importance as a stopover. The tramway that was constructed in 1797 to carry stones from the quarries of Dove Holes to the terminus of the Peak Forest Canal at Bugsworth had an impact upon the town. The trucks were horse drawn for the majority of the journey, but a revolutionary gravitational railway was used on the steepest section, and this path can be traced on the eastern boundary of Chapel.