The Buxton Antiques Fair is held annually in the Octagon and Paxton Suites of the Pavilion in Buxton's Pavilion Gardens.

The Pavilion Gardens
St John's Road
Buxton
Derbyshire SK17 6XN
Tel: 0129 823 114

Buxton itself lies in the heart of the Peak District National Park.



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History

With the arrival of the railway in 1863, a boom period was beginning for Buxton. Houses, hotels and boarding houses were built on Broad Walk and Burlington Road, which border the Gardens. At that time, the Seventh Duke of Devonshire suggested that private citizens should put money into a Company to improve amenities in Buxton.

The prospectus and Form of Application for shares of the Buxton Improvement Company, December 1869, make the objects of the Company clear: to add to the attractions and increase the prosperity of Buxton.

Edward Milner, the eminent landscape gardener, was appointed and in remarkably short time, the gardens opened on 11th May 1871, to be followed in August by the opening of the Pavilion.

The Concert Hall, (now known as the Octagon) designed by Buxton Architect, Robert Rippon Duke, was opened in 1875.

The Entertainment Stage, soon to be known as the Pavilion Theatre and later as the Hippodrome (cinema), the Playhouse (from 1935) and the Paxton Suite (from 1979) was added in 1889.

Recently, work commenced to restore the Gardens to their Victorian splendour and this was completed in Autumn of 2003.

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