MACKWORTH, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 2 miles
(W. N. W.) from Derby, containing, with the township
of Mark-Eaton, 650 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the Icing's
books at £9. 3., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of Francis Mundy, Esq. The church,
dedicated to All Saints, is partly in the decorated style of
architecture. Here is remaining the gateway of a castle,
anciently the seat of the De Mackworths, and said to
have been demolished during the parliamentary war.