WHITFIELD, a township in the parish of GLOSSOP, hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 1 miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 984 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wes- leyan Methodists. A school-house was erected, about 1786, by Joseph Hague, Esq., who endowed it with land and houses of the present, annual value of £40; he also left the interest of £1000 to be expended in clothes for twelve poor men and as many women of this and other townships in the parish.