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WORMHILL, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WORMHILL, a township and chapelry in the parish of Tideswell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 2 miles S.W. of Tideswell. The village is situated on the river Wye, under Chee Tor, one of the wonders of the Peak. In this township are mineral springs, which give flume to the hundred, and round which the inhabitants anciently used to meet at an annual well-dressing.

At a place called Thornsett, Brindley, the engineer, was born. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £270. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. The charities produce about £8 per annual. There is a free school, supported by the landowners. Westby Bagshawe, Esq., of Wormhill Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner."

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

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