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Encyclopedia Britannica



WIRKSWORTH

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 740 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WIRKSWORTH , a market town in the western parliamentary division of Derbyshire, England, 14 M. N.N.W. of Derby, on a branch of the Midland railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 3807. It is picturesquely situated at the head of the valley of a small tributary of the Derwent, at an
elevation
  exceeding Soo ft., and is almost encircled by sharply rising hills. The cruciform church of St Mary, with a central tower and short spire, is in
great
  part Early English, with Perpendicular additions; but considerable traces of a Norman building were revealed during a modern restoration. There is a manufacture of tape in the town, and lead-mining and stone-quarrying are carried on in the neighbourhood; relics of the Roman working of the lead mines have been discovered. A large brass vessel used as a standard measure for the lead ore, and dating from the time of
Henry
  VIII., is preserved.


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