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WORMHILL - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

WORMHILL is a chapelry, in the parish of Tideswell, about two miles and a half W.S.W. from that town. The river Wye runs, in its vicinity, through the most picturesque scenery, particularly that of Chee Dale, in this chapelry. The rocks on both sides of the stream present a bold face of limestone and lava in alternate strata, which, when viewed from the narrow dell, appear, by the uniformity of their indentions and projections, to have been once united, and rent asunder, by some remarkable convulsion of nature.

'Chee Torr', a stupendous piece of rock, rises perpendicularly from the bottom of the dale to an altitude of nearly 400 feet, and is almost insulated by the river Wye, which flows at the foot of the mountain, The chapel here is dedicated to St. Margaret: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of certain trustees.

The chapelry contained, at the last census, (taken in 1831), 313 persons.

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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