WINGERWORTH, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WINGERWORTH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles S.W. of Chesterfield. It is situated on the line of the Midland railway, the ancient Icknield Street and river Rother, and has some "rock-basins" at Stainedge Cliff. The surface is hilly, and the substratum abounds in coal, iron-stone, and freestone. It is chiefly the property of Sir H. J. J. Hunloke, Bart., who is lord of the manor, and resides at the Hall, rebuilt in 1724 on the site of the former hall, which was taken possession of and garrisoned for the parliament in 1643.

The parish includes the hamlets of Hockley, Nethermoor, and Stubbing, with Swathwick annexed. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £100, in the patronage of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains tombs of the Brailsford, Curzon, and Hunloke families, who have successively held the manor. There are a Roman Catholic chapel, and a school for the free education of 29 children, supported by an endowment of £30 per annum. The brass head of a catapult was found on the line of the Roman road."

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