
- Why is Creamery Lane, so called?
- Which Parwich house was a YHA youth hostel in the 1930s?
- Daisy Bank Farm was initially developed soon after 1838 in order to hire out horses. What were these horses used for?
- Put the following shopkeepers at the old Parwich Shop in the correct chronological order: Goulden, Wibberley, Birds, Lowes, Slater
- Whose effigy was burnt on Parwich village green in or shortly after 1911 following a church service?
- What do the following Parwich deaths have in common: Richard, Geoffrey Bunbel’s man in 1281, Mrs Elizabeth Dakeyne in 1807 and Miss Mary Roe in 1807?
- The Rev Beetham, thought to be vicar of Parwich in the 1770s, following a run in with some unruly parishioners took as text for his sermon “And I caught certain of them and smote them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God”. What village celebration provided the setting for this fracas?
- What in Parwich opened in 1982 and closed in 2000?
Thank you to Parwich & District Local History Society for these questions taken from some of their previous Quizzes.


1. Because it leads to Knob Hall which was the Creamery
2. Flaxdale House
3.
4. Wibberley, Slater, Birds, Goulden, Lowes
5. The Vicar – Gerald Lewis?
6.
7. Wakes
8. Parwich Care Centre
1. Correct – There was a Creamery or cheese factory in
Knob Hall
2. Correct – Flaxdale. Also, White Meadows House was
also a youth hostel as some point, but it is not
actually in Parwich
3. Daisy Bank Farm was initially developed soon after
1838 in order to hire out horses to pull trains on the
Cromford & High Peak Railway
4. Correct -1st Wibberly, 2nd Slater, 3rd Birds,
4th Goulden, 5th Lowes
5. Almost correct – it was the Vicar but his name was
the Rev. Claude Lewis
6. The common link between Richard, Geoffrey Bunbel’s
man in 1281; Mrs Elizabeth Dakeyne in 1807 and Miss
Mary Roe in 1807? were that they were all murder
victims
7. Correct – the village celebration that provided the
setting for this fracas was Wakes
8. Correct – The Care Centre
Well done Sandra – 5 1/2 out of 8 – but we will call you the winner of this quiz.