BIGGIN, a township in that part of the parish of
WIRKSWORTH which is in the hundred of APPLETREE,
county of DERBY, 5 miles (E. by N.) from Ashbourn,
containing 160 inhabitants. This place is in the honour
of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the
jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every
third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.
Here was formerly a church, or chapel, but for many
years not even the site of it has been known.