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.
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 also very popular with hikers and campers, 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.
Amongst its farms, houses and cottages, Flagg also boasts an Elizabethan Manor House known as Flagg Hall [not open to the public] which offers a caravan/campsite within its grounds, three public houses, the most central to the village being The Plough Inn, which offers not only the usual choice of good ales, but also a restaurant, bed & breakfast facilities, and a small camping field opposite. There is also the Unitarian church which was built in 1838 (now a private dwelling), and the Methodist chapel which was built a year later in 1839. Next-door to the chapel is the highly-respected nursery school, which has earned great praise from recent Ofsted reports. Greater detail on all the above is to be found within the website itself, so do please read on.
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