Wirksworth is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, with a population recorded as 5,038 in the 2011 census.
It contains the source of the River Ecclesbourne.
The town was granted a market charter by Edward I in 1306. The market is held today on Tuesdays in the Memorial Gardens.
The parish church of St Mary's is believed to date from about 653. Wirksworth developed as a centre for lead mining and later stone quarrying.
Many lead mines in the area were owned by the Gell family of nearby Hopton Hall. *
There is more I could say about this small market town, which contains a picturesque parish church, tucked away behind one of the main roads, a handful of pubs and some interesting restaurants which lean heavily towards vegetarianism.
But it was the war memorial that caught my attention set in a small garden which had been remodeled for the purpose in 1977.
Along with the memorial listing the men of the town from both world wars who never came back, there is a smaller Falkland War Island stone, a wrought iron, silhouette and a stone “ erected “For the people of Wirksworth on November 2018 to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War”, which stand to the left of a set of gates.
Location; Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Pictures; the war memorial, Wirksworth, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Wirksworth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirksworth
The town was granted a market charter by Edward I in 1306. The market is held today on Tuesdays in the Memorial Gardens.
The parish church of St Mary's is believed to date from about 653. Wirksworth developed as a centre for lead mining and later stone quarrying.
Many lead mines in the area were owned by the Gell family of nearby Hopton Hall. *
There is more I could say about this small market town, which contains a picturesque parish church, tucked away behind one of the main roads, a handful of pubs and some interesting restaurants which lean heavily towards vegetarianism.
But it was the war memorial that caught my attention set in a small garden which had been remodeled for the purpose in 1977.
Pictures; the war memorial, Wirksworth, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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