Welcome to Edge Close Farm Tea Rooms, opened on the 17th of March, 2005, by owners Michael and Elizabeth Redfern. We are a fully licensed tea rooms, and our food is all homemade and freshly cooked, with many of the ingredients being locally produced. We also make our own jams, chutneys, preserves, and pickled onions, which are available for purchase within the tearooms.The tea rooms are situated in the unspoilt, rural village of Flagg, which nestles amongst the rolling hills and farmland of the Derbyshire Peak District National Park, halfway between the famous spa town of Buxton and the picturesque town of Bakewell, in the Derbyshire Dales area of the "White Peak".
A thousand feet above sea level, Flagg is recorded in the Doomsday Book as "Flagun", and is believed to have originally been a Viking settlement engaged primarily in lead mining, the evidence of which can still be seen today with many spoil heaps and disused mine shafts in the area. Another train of thought is that the village's main means of support was turf cutting, the reasoning being that the original meaning of "Flag" is turf or sod.
In the mid-nineteenth century, well dressings were held during "Wakes Week", which was always begun on the first Sunday after the 24th of June. There were two wells, one opposite to Ivy House Farm, and the other opposite to Edge Close Farm itself.
These days, Flagg is predominantly a farming village, concentrating on all aspects of agriculture, but is actually best known throughout the United Kingdom for the point-to-point races held annually on Easter Tuesday by the High Peak Hunt. On one occasion, King Edward VIII, the then Prince of Wales, actually rode at the races.
The village is very popular with hikers, campers, cyclists, and motorcyclists, having numerous well known walks within or close to its boundaries, and several campsites catering for tents, caravans, and motorhomes alike. There are also holiday cottages within the village if home comforts are more your thing. Flagg is the perfect central stopping place for the major tourist towns and villages in the area such as the afore-mentioned Buxton and Bakewell, the popular village of Tideswell, and is only a short drive away from Ashbourne, Matlock, and the exceptionally beautiful Manifold Valley.
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