Hayfield to the Royal Hotel, was purchased by the club in 1976 after famous ex-resident Arthur Lowe helped raise the necessary £5,000. There are several natural springs within Hayfield village, some of which once supplied part of the village's water. These are no longer in active use, although are 'dressed' yearly in well dressing ceremonies. Although classed as being in the East Midlands, Hayfield is at the northern extremity of the region and falls more within the influence of Manchester and Stockport in North West England. Some kind of settlement has been in existence in Hayfield since Roman times, and possibly
White's Fort (Hayfield, Virginia) party were captured or escaped, one of which was a woman who survived a scalping. In his "A History of the Valley of Virginia" (1833), Samuel Kercheval remarks of White, "who had a small fort around his house as an asylum for the people in the neighborhood." White later acquired an additional tract of along Hogue Creek from his brother John White on April 7, 1790. It was on this property in 1790 that White erected the brick mansion that would later be known as "Hayfield." The structures constituting "White's Fort" were destroyed by fire around 1919. White's Fort (Hayfield,