Wormhill, Derbyshire Family History Guide
Wormhill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1748 from a chapelry in Tideswell Ancient Parish.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1674
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1680
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WORMHILL, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Tideswell parish, Derby; near Millers-Dale r. station, and 2¼ miles SW of Tideswell. Post town, Bakewell.
Acres, 4,330. Real property, £4,903; of which £700 are in quarries. Pop., 418. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided.
The manor, with W. Hall, belongs to F. W. Bagshawe, Esq. The scenery is romantic; and Cheetor is reckoned one of the wonders of the Peak.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £270. Patrons, Trustees. The church was restored in 1864. There are a free school, and charities £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Derbyshire
- Civil Registration District: Chapel en le Frith
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Buxton
- Poor Law Union: Chapel en le Frith
- Hundred: High Peake
- Province: Canterbury