History
Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Banford, and likely came from Anglo-Saxon Bēamford = "tree-trunk ford".
The parish church of St John the Baptist was built c. 1860. There are also Methodist and Catholic churches in the village.
The village graveyard also contains some re-interred graves from the nearly villages of Derwent and Ashopton which were drowned following the creation of Ladybower Reservoir.
Bamford water mill has been turned into flats but some of the original machinery still remains.
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