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.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1674
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1680

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

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