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Fairfield is almost on Buxton's doorstep, but it keeps a character of its own, for all at once the busy road opens out to a breezy common where men play golf 1100 feet above sea-level, one of the highest courses in England.
Just beyond the common is Water Swallows, its name coming from the curious behaviour of a stream near the wayside, which disappears into the earth with swirling eddies and runs underground for about three miles until it bursts out in Chee Dale.
The church of 1839 has an old font which may have been in the chapel here 700 years ago, when the Dakins were living in the village.
One of two 19th century memorials to them has on it the strange motto: 'Strike, Dakin, the Devil's in the hemp'.
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