Norfolk Square, Glossop

{{Short description|Town square in Glossop, England}}

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Norfolk Square is in the centre of Glossop in Derbyshire, England, a former mill town close to the Peak District. It forms part of the town centre, adjacent to the crossroads where the A57 road meets the A624. Glossop railway station, opened in 1845, is just to the north of the square. It is at the centre of modern Glossop, with many of the buildings dating from the 19th century, as the heart of the town shifted westwards from Old Glossop during the Industrial Revolution. It forms the focus of the town's commercial area with numerous shops, restaurants and pubs in the streets leading off it.

It takes its name from the Dukes of Norfolk, a major landowning family in the area who constructed many of the buildings in the square, which was once known as Norfolk Gardens.{{sfn|Moat|2016|p=38}} Glossop Market and Glossop Town Hall are on the southern side, dating from 1838.{{cite web |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/town-hall-market-place-glossop-6912 |title=Town Hall, Market Place, Glossop, Derbyshire |publisher=Historic England |access-date=30 April 2023}} Many of the square's buildings are listed as Grade II among the numerous listed buildings in the town. The Norfolk Arms public house, dating from 1823, stands by the crossroads.{{NHLE |num=1384271 |desc=Norfolk Arms Public House |grade=II |access-date=30 April 2023}} The northern side of the square features the 1914 Partington Theatre.{{NHLE |num=1384260 |desc=Partington Theatre |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |access-date=30 April 2023}} The middle of the square is a pedestrianised garden featuring an 1881 drinking fountain and a war memorial commemorating the dead of the First World War.{{NHLE |num=1384272 |desc=Drinking trough uutside the Norfolk Arms Public House |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |access-date=30 April 2023}}{{NHLE |num=1384285 |desc=War Memorial |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |access-date=30 April 2023}} In the early twentieth century it was connected to the Glossop Tramway before its closure in 1927.