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    Wirksworth is a market and former quarry town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. Its population of 4,904 in the 2021 Census was estimated...
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    heritage railway based at Wirksworth station in Derbyshire, England. It operates passenger services between Duffield and Wirksworth, with occasional services...
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    Middleton or Middleton-by-Wirksworth is an upland village and civil parish lying approximately one mile NNW of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. Middleton...
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    The Moot Hall is a judicial building in Chapel Lane in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. The building, which is used as the meeting place of the barmote...
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  • Middleton-by-Wirksworth is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains six listed buildings that are recorded...
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  • Steeplehouse and Wirksworth Goods Yard was a goods station located on the Cromford and High Peak Railway in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It consisted of three...
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    Wirksworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Coldwell Street, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Wirksworth...
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    District mines, the main European source at the time. On one of the walls in Wirksworth Church is a crude stone carving, found nearby at Bonsall and placed in...
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  • Wirksworth is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 107 listed buildings that are recorded in the...
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  • Ground is a cricket ground in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1866, when Wirksworth played an All-England Eleven...
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    district also includes the towns of Ashbourne, Bakewell, Darley Dale and Wirksworth, as well as numerous villages and extensive rural areas. Much of the district...
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    [dead link] Well dressings in Wirksworth Derbyshire Archived 5 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine Community site for Wirksworth Derbyshire Well Dressings in...
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    parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock. It is 17 miles (27 km) north of Derby, 2 miles (3.2 km) south...
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  • as an attorney, some of which he used to endow the grammar school at Wirksworth, now known as Anthony Gell School. He was granted arms in 1575: Per bend...
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    Wirksworth railway station is a stop on the heritage Ecclesbourne Valley Railway that serves the town of Wirksworth in Derbyshire, England. It was the...
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    Derwent Valley Line. It is also a junction with the former branch line to Wirksworth, which is now operated as the Ecclesbourne Valley heritage railway. The...
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  • Filming took place in Adelaide, South Australia, in Nottingham, and at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Some interior scenes were filmed at the University of Leicester...
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    Tideswell was still represented by one councillor and was slightly expanded. Wirksworth was still represented by three councillors and was slightly expanded....
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    built a fort to protect the ford across which the caravans of lead from Wirksworth joined Rykneld Street at Derby, en route for the North Sea ports, though...
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    sellotaped a real 'threepenny bit' coin onto the bow. MacArthur attended Wirksworth County Infants and Junior Schools and the Anthony Gell School and also...
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    becoming a partner in a medical practice in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. His daughter was born in Wirksworth in 1878. The house he lived in on Coldwell Street...
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    under a year (mid-1918 to early 1919) at Mountain Cottage, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, where he wrote one of his most poetic short stories, Wintry...
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  • Thorpe, Tissington, Wallstone, Welledene, Wensley, Werredune, Winster, Wirksworth. 71 other places are also named within the manor of Blackwell: Abney,...
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    village of Carsington and two miles (3.2 km) from the market town of Wirksworth in the Peak District. Evidence of humans visiting, possibly 200,000 years...
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  • Dewsbury Cross Rhythms in Stoke-on-Trent Greatest Hits Radio Derbyshire in Wirksworth and Uttoxeter Greatest Hits Radio Surrey & East Hampshire in Petersfield...
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    James’ Church, Idridgehay Holy Trinity Church, Middleton-by-Wirksworth St Mary's Church, Wirksworth The pipe organ was built by Henry Willis in 1859. A specification...
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    Portway: An archaeological assessment report" (PDF). Wirksworth Archaeological Society. Wirksworth Roman Project. Retrieved 6 September 2019. Historic...
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    the junction of the B5035 and West End roads, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Wirksworth, the population taken at the 2011 Census also included in the civil parish...
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    tunnels. From June 22 to 24, filming took place at Middle Peak Quarry near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Production was expected to wrap in mid-2021, and Luna confirmed...
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  • Chesterfield, Heanor, Ilkeston, Blackwell, Abbeydale Park in Sheffield, Wirksworth and Burton upon Trent (3 grounds), which is actually in neighbouring Staffordshire...
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