[1] The name is derived from 'spar row pit' from the fluorspar mines.

It is situated at a crossroads where the main road (A623) takes a right-angled bend at the Wanted Inn.

From this junction, one minor road takes a different and hillier route to Chapel-en-le-Frith, and another heads for Mam Tor and Castleton by way of the Winnats Pass.

[2] The watershed between rivers running east into the North Sea and west into the Irish Sea runs almost exactly through the village.

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