Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wirksworth. You may be able to find further references to Wirksworth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wirksworth	hundred	Bartholomew
Wirksworth	market town, parish and township, with railway station	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wirksworth.

Place	Type of entry	Source
ALDERWASLEY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Ashleyhay	township	Bartholomew
ASHLEYHAY	a township	Imperial
Biggin	township	Bartholomew
BIGGIN	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Callow	township and seat	Bartholomew
CALLOW	a township	Imperial
Cromford	small market town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
CROMFORD	a small town, and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Hopton	township	Bartholomew
HOPTON	a township	Imperial
HULLAND	a village and two townships	Imperial
IBBLE, or IBLE	a township	Imperial
Ible	township	Bartholomew
Idridgehay	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
Idridgehay and Alton	township	Bartholomew
Ivonbrook Grange	township	Bartholomew
IVONBROOK-GRANGE	a hamlet	Imperial
Middleton by Wirksworth	township and village	Bartholomew
MIDDLETON-BY-WIRKSWORTH	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Wirksworth within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	7
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Cromford	0	4
Middleton By Wirksworth	0	2
Ashleyhay	0	2
Callow	0	2
Hopton	0	2
Lea Bridge	0	1
Holloway	0	2
Griffe Grange	0	2
Alderwasley	0	2
Whatstandwell	0	2
Carsington	0	2
Ible	0	2
Bonsall	0	2
Lea	0	2
Idridgehay	0	3
Dethick	0	2
Kirk Ireton	0	3
Crich	1	2
Matlock Bridge	0	1
Snitterton	0	2