Shatton

Shatton lies on a hollow-way, a sunken footpath which was part of the Roman Long Causeway from Brough to Glossop. In medieval times Shatton lay within the Royal Forest of the Peak, a hunting ground exclusive to the king and his nobles, where in 1285 one of the foresters was Peter de Shatton. The extensive Royal Forest - by no means all trees - was home to wolves, wild boar and deer, but the only beasts running free today are likely to be sheep, in their hundreds.