The buildings along Brimington road, which runs through the centre of Tapton, are testament to this fact.

During the English Civil War, the castle was razed to the ground, by Parliamentarian forces.

[5] Taylor left instructions in his will for the founding of alms houses, and 6 alms houses were duly erected in 1678 in Salter Gate, by his son-in-law Charles Scrimshire, as the inscription in the centre of the buildings attests.

Tapton House was once the home of English mechanical engineer George Stephenson who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

In 1837 he arrived in Chesterfield, to undertake the construction of the Derby to Leeds railway (North Midland Line).

In 1931, the first pupils passed through its doors as Tapton House Central Selective School.