Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WORMHILL

WORMHILL, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Tideswell parish, Derby; near Millers-Dale r. station, and 2¼ miles SW of Tideswell. Post town, Bakewell. Acres, 4,330. Real property, £4,903; of which £700 are in quarries. Pop., 418. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided. The manor, with W. Hall, belongs to F. W. Bagshawe, Esq. The scenery is romantic; and Cheetor is reckoned one of the wonders of the Peak. The Iiving is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £270.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was restored in 1864. There are a free school, and charities £8.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tideswell CP/AP       Wormhill CP/Ch       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Wormhill

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