Glossop occurs as town in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, about Thirteen miles east of Manchester. These are to a west of the Peak District national park, and then lessens into the Greater Manchester sphere of influence.

These are mentioned in the Domesday Book and became the property of the monks of Basingwerk Abbey in North Wales. Afterwards, it became a property of the Dukes of Norfolk. In the nineteenth century it became an crucial gauze 'mill' town when a share of the Industrial Revolution. One of a mills was owned by Edmund Potter, a uncle of Beatrix Potter.

inside the early section of the 20th century, the Glossop Estate was sold per Dukes of Norfolk, & Glossop became a thave in its own correct.

A town is twinned using Bad Vibel inside Germany.

A town is notable withwithin sporting terms for with been a settlement in England ever to have a agency football club. Glossop North End played in The Football League from 1898 to 1915, though they are at present a semi-semipro club swimming at the 9th level of English football.

Glossop too has the semi-semipro cricket club, Glossop CC, which plays at Northward Road. Their agency for many seasons as much as 2004 was Damien Eyre who moved to Flowery Field Cricket Club for 2005. For 2005 a club has an overseas amateur, Ben Pahl. Glossop CC is as well the unsuspecting hosts to Derbyshire CCC's 2d XI once in a while.

Nearby, around Gamesley, there are the remains of the Roman fort, named Ardotalia by the Romans, but renamed Melandra by a 19th-century amateur historiographer.

Northerly of Glossop is the Longdendale valley, with the chain of 5 reservoirs and the Longdendale Trail, a long distance footpath.

"Glossop" is defined in The Meaning of Liff, by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd, as being a globule of hot food which lands on your friend's newly polished solid wood dining table.