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WORMHILL, Derbyshire

"WORMHILL lies west of Monks Dale, a scattered village close to the edges of Chee Dale. The tenure by which it was held in the 14thC. was a toll of wolves' heads from the Forest of Peak. There are some very delightful spots round about the village, and the entrance into Chee Dale has that fascinating element of surprise and suddenness which never seems to wear off though we experience it time after time. The limestone bluffs are magnificently bold and precipitous, and the path beside the Wye is sometimes so narrowed by the rush of the water that it becomes impassable. By following this sinuous water-cleft, we come out into the Buxton road where it drops from Taddington. Close by is the railway to Buxton, and the break-away of the Manchester line."

[From The High Peak to Sherwood, by Thomas L. Tudor, pub. (London) R. Scott, 1925-6.
Transcription from an original copy kindly donated by Barbarann Ayars, 13th Jan 2001]

Bibliography Cemeteries Church History Church Records Description and Travel

Early 20thC Map Click to view larger area.

Directories Gazetteers History Manors

Bibliography

• Drewry, Christopher - Wormhill - The History of a High Peak Village, 2007.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Wormhill - The History of a High Peak Village’. Added 5 Aug 2007.

Cemeteries

• A list of Surnames from the Memorial Inscriptions of the Church of St Margaret, Wormhill published originally in Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group (DARG) Newsletter, October 2006.
  Full details of inscriptions are available from DARG by postal application. See their How to Contact details for how to get in touch with them. Added 5 Oct 2006.

Church History

• Photograph of St Margaret's Church (1), and Photograph of St Margaret's Church (2), Wormhill, from Alf Beard.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Margaret's Church (CMB 1674-1905) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 12 Aug 2005.

Description and Travel

• A short Description of Wormhill and St Margaret's Church, published originally in Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group (DARG) Newsletter, October 2006, to accompany the MIs (see above, Cemeteries). Added 5 Oct 2006.

Directories

• A Description of Wormhill and Directory for Tideswell, with the chapelry of Wormhill, Peak Forest and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Wormhill by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Wormhill from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Wormhill by Barbarann Ayars.

Manors

• An account of Wormhill Hall, taken from Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Volume I 1892 (The High Peak) by Joseph Tilley, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars.

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