DE4 4DG

NEIGHBOURHOOD REPORT

DE4 4DG - Wirksworth

Wirksworth is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. Its population was 4,902 in the 2021 census. Wirksworth contains the source of the River Ecclesbourne. The town was granted a market charter by Edward I in 1306 and still holds a market on Tuesdays in the Memorial Gardens. The parish church of St Mary's is thought to date from 653. The town developed as a centre for lead mining and stone quarrying. Many lead mines were owned by the Gell family of nearby Hopton Hall.

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Situated in local authority Wirksworth, Wirksworth is classed as mainly rural (rural including hub towns >=80%) . Nearest towns are Matlock (3 miles away), Belper (6 miles away), Ripley (8 miles away), with the capital city, London being 126 miles away.

Derbyshire

Known as one of the most picturesque counties in the UK, Derbyshire offers the quintessential green pastures and gamboling lambs of the English countryside, intersected by tumble-down stone walls, large and remote farms, grey stone villages, desolate and beautiful moorland and miles and miles of rolling hills.

Perhaps unsurprisingly much of the landscape is part of the Peak District National Park but there is also some breathtaking scenery in other areas of the county.

In the north the county overlaps with the Pennines and it also includes part of the National Forest. Derbyshire borders Cheshire to the West, Staffordshire to the South West, Leicestershire to the South East, Nottinghamshire to the East, Yorkshire in the North East and North, and Greater Manchester to the North West.

It has been inhabited for over 200,000 years and there are numerous Paleolithic, Neolithic and Stone Age sites scattered around the county. In addition there are some wonderful Neolithic burial tombs in Five Wells and Minning Low that date back to about 2500 BC. There are a number of Bronze Age sites in the Peak District and plenty of evidence of the later Roman invasion, especially around the warm springs of Buxton.

Indeed Buxton, an elegant spa town, is one of Derbyshire's historical highlights as are the dramatic town of Matlock Bath, Bolsover Castle, Castleton, Kedleston Hall and the National Trust run properties at Calke Abbey, Hardwick Hall, High Peak Estate and Sudbury Hall. For outdoor pursuits there is the area around the reservoirs of Ladybower, Derwent and Howden which offers hiking and cycling trails.

But for the great outdoors itself nothing beats the Peak District and sites such as Kinder Scout and Mam Tor, as well as hundreds of miles of peatlands, steep sided valleys and rocky crags. Derbyshire truly deserves its title as 'the backbone of the country.'

Where is it?

Location
Wirksworth

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Ward
Wirksworth

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Local Authority
Derbyshire Dales

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Council

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Constituency

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County
Derbyshire

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Region
East Midlands

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Country
England

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Classification
Mainly Rural (rural including hub towns >=80%)

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Area Type
Non-metropolitan District

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ONS GSS ID
E00099338

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LSOADZ_NAME
Derbyshire Dales 007A

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Government ID
Derbyshire Dales 007

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Coordinates
53.073, -1.578

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Phone Code
(01629) xxxxxx

Nearby Towns

Matlock	3.4 mi
Belper	5.8 mi
Ripley	7.7 mi
Ashbourne	7.9 mi
Derby	11.5 mi
Nottingham	20.1 mi
Sheffield	21.8 mi
London	126.4 mi
Cardiff	130.2 mi
Edinburgh	208.3 mi