TISSINGTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"TISSINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 4 miles N. of Ashbourne, its post town, and 9 S.W. of Winster. The village is situated on the road from Ashbourne to Buxton, near Thorp Cloud and other cliffs which guard the entrance to the district of Dove Dale. In the vicinity are cotton mills on Bradbourn Brook, also a stone quarry. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £97.

The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is old, and surrounded by trees. A N. aisle was added in 1854, at the expense of Miss Fitzherbert, to whose family the church contains monuments. The parochial charities produce about £30 per annum, of which sum £7 go to the support of Fitzherbert's school.

Graves wrote part of his "Spiritual Quixote" here. Sir H. Fitzherbert is lord of the manor. At a little distance from the church are five wells or fountains, which are said anciently to have furnished the only supply of water for several miles round, and are still annually covered with flowers by the villagers on Holy Thursday."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]