The chapel was established by William Bagshaw as a nonconformist church in 1662, and is still the home of the local Congregational church.
Chinley railway station serves the village of Chinley in Derbyshire, England.
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This became a double viaduct when the Dore and Chinley line was built in 1894, with a north curve forming a triangular junction.
The son of William Harrison, presbyterian minister of Chinley, Derbyshire, was born at Chinley on 10 September 1748.
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However, with the closure of the ex Midland route from Chinley to Rowsley to passenger traffic in 1967, Central station was closed.
Originally, the Midland had planned to extend through Buxton, but the LNWR already had a line, so the Midland built a line through Chinley and Buxworth to join the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at New Mills, in an association which became known as the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee.
In 1894 the station became the junction for the new Dore and Chinley line (now the Hope Valley Line).
Trains for Manchester were generally routed along the Hope Valley Line and the Garratts normally came off their trains at the Gowhole freight sidings just south of Chinley.
Its purpose was to carry limestone from the vast quarries around Dove Holes down to Bugsworth Basin via Chapel-en-le-Frith and Chinley, where much of it was taken by boat along the Peak Forest Canal and the Ashton Canal to Manchester and beyond.