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Wormhill - by Daniel and Samuel Lysons, 1817

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Transcription by Barbarann Ayars © 2001
[Lyson's Magna Britannia Vol 5: Derbyshire, page 280]

WORMHILL: The parochial chapelry of Wormhill lies two miles and a half from Tideswell, and seven from Bakewell. The manor of Wormhill (Wruenele) belonged, when the Survey of Domesday was taken, to Henry de Ferrars. Sir William Plumpton, whose father married the heiress of Foljambe, died seised of it in 1480. Having passed with Hassop, it is now the property of the Earl of Newburgh.

In the year 1320, John Wolfhurt, son and heir of John Wolfhurt, held a house and lands in Wormhill by the service of chasing and taking all wolves which should come into the King's Forest of the Peak. (Thomas Foljambe held lands in Wormhill by the service of keeping the King's forest de Campana, on horseback, attended by a footboy: Dodsworth's Collections from Exchequer records). The chapel at Wormhill was in the patronage of certain trustees, of whom the present minister (1817), the Reverend William Bagshaw is the only survivor. There is a small school here, built by the inhabitants, and endowed with the interest of 40 £.

 

[From Lysons Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817.
Transcription kindly donated by Barbarann AYARS, 13th Jan 2001]