Editing Buxton (section)

== Sport and civic organisations ==
[[File:Buxton Raceway in Derbyshire, August 2021.jpg|thumb|Buxton Raceway]]
Above the town are two small [[motorcycle speedway|speedway]] stadiums. Buxton Raceway (formerly High Edge Raceway), off the A53 Buxton to Leek road, is a motor sports circuit set up in 1974, hosting banger and stock car racing, as well as drifting events.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buxtonraceway.com/ |title=Buxton Raceway |access-date=8 May 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508080432/http://www.buxtonraceway.com/ |archive-date=8 May 2015}}</ref> It was home to the speedway team [[Buxton Hitmen|Buxton High Edge Hitmen]] in the mid-1990s before the team moved to a custom-built track to the north of the original one. The original track at High Edge Raceway<ref>[http://buxtonraceway.oppositelockforum.com/about.htm "About Us"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028164357/http://buxtonraceway.oppositelockforum.com/about.htm |date=28 October 2008}}, Buxton Raceway website.</ref> was among the longest and trickiest in the UK. The new track is more conventional, and has been improved a few times. Buxton have been competitors in the [[Conference League (speedway)|Conference League]].<ref>[http://www.youandyesterday.co.uk/articles/Speedway_in_Derbyshire "Speedway in Derbyshire"], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018013311/http://www.youandyesterday.co.uk/articles/Speedway_in_Derbyshire |date=18 October 2007}} ''You and Yesterday'', accessed on 16 December 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Neil |last=Hubbert |url=http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/speedway/Victory-for-Hitmen.3080737.jp |title=Victory for the Hitmen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025095102/http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/speedway/Victory-for-Hitmen.3080737.jp |archive-date=25 October 2007 |newspaper=Buxton Advertiser |date=2 August 2007}}</ref> Buxton Raceway was due to hold a floodlit 2019 [[BriSCA Formula 2 Stock Cars|BriSCA Formula 2]] World Final.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://buxtonraceway.com/f2world/index.htm |title=BriSCA F2 World Championship 2019 |website=buxtonraceway.com |access-date=29 August 2019 |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404131731/https://buxtonraceway.com/f2world/index.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Buxton's football club, [[Buxton F.C.]], plays at Silverlands and Buxton Cricket Club at the [[Park Road, Buxton|Park Road]] ground.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buxtoncc.org/ |title=Buxton Cricket Club |date=19 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119152424/http://www.buxtoncc.org/ |archive-date=19 November 2008}}</ref> Other team clubs are [[rugby union|Buxton Rugby Union]]<ref>[http://www.buxtonrugbyclub.com Buxton Rugby Club] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108032432/http://www.buxtonrugbyclub.com/ |date=8 November 2010}}, accessed 10 December 2011.</ref> and Buxton Hockey Club.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buxtonhockeyclub.co.uk |title=Home page |publisher=Buxton Hockey Club |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303065304/http://www.buxtonhockeyclub.co.uk/ |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> There are also four Hope Valley League football clubs: Buxton Town, Peak Dale and Buxton Christians play at the Fairfield Centre and Blazing Rag at the Kents Bank Recreation Ground.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}

Buxton has two 18-hole golf courses. [[Cavendish Golf Club]] ranked among the top 100 in England. It was designed by the renowned [[Alister MacKenzie]] and dates from 1925.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cavendishgolfclub.com/ |title=Cavendish Golf Club – Award-winning golf club in Buxton, Derbyshire |website=Cavendish Golf Club |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106040541/http://www.cavendishgolfclub.com/ |archive-date=6 November 2008}}</ref> At Fairfield is [[Buxton and High Peak Golf Club|Buxton & High Peak Golf Club]]. Founded in 1887 on the site of [[Buxton Racecourse]], it is the oldest in Derbyshire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bhpgc.co.uk/ |title=Home|website=Buxton and High Peak Golf Club |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208234349/http://www.bhpgc.co.uk/ |archive-date=8 December 2008}}</ref>

[[File:Buxton View From Peakdistrict.jpg|thumb|250px|left|View of Buxton from [[Solomon's Temple, Buxton|Solomon's Temple]]]]
The hillside round Solomon's Temple is a popular local [[bouldering]] venue with many small outcrops giving problems mainly in the lower grades. These are described in the 2003 guidebook ''High over Buxton: A Boulderer's Guide''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warren |first1=Daniel |first2=Graham |last2=Warren |title=High over Buxton: A Boulderer's Guide |publisher=Raven Rock Books |date=2003 |isbn=0-9530352-1-2}}</ref> Hoffman Quarry at [[Harpur Hill]], sitting prominently above Buxton, is a local venue for [[sport climbing]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Gary |last=Gibson |title=From Horseshoe to Harpur Hill |publisher=BMC |date=2004 |isbn=0-903908-72-7}}</ref>

Youth groups include the Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre at the Pavilion Arts Centre,<ref>[http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/education-community/kaleidoscope "Kaleidoscope"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208235500/http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/education-community/kaleidoscope |date=8 December 2011}}, Buxton Opera House, accessed 12 May 2011.</ref> Buxton Squadron [[Air Training Corps|Air Cadets]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.2517sqn.org.uk |title=home |website=2517sqn.org.uk}}</ref> Derbyshire [[Army Cadet Force]] and the [[Sea cadets|Sea Cadet Corps]], in addition to units of the Scouts & Guide Association.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

Buxton has three Masonic Lodges and a Royal Arch Chapter, which meets at the Masonic Hall, George Street. Phoenix Lodge of Saint Ann No. 1235 was consecrated in 1865, Buxton Lodge No. 1688 in 1877, and High Peak Lodge No. 1952 in 1881. The Royal Arch Chapter is attached to Phoenix Lodge of Saint Ann, and bears the same name and number, it being consecrated in 1872.<ref>United Grand Lodge of England (2006) ''Directory of Lodges and Chapters'' London.</ref>