PARWICK, a parish in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH,
county of DERBY, 6 miles (N. by E.) from
Ashbotirn, containing 551 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of William
Evans, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has
some portions of Norman architecture. A railway
from the Peak Forest canal to the Cromford canal
crosses the northern part of the parish. William Beresford,
in 1695, granted certain land, now producing about
£8 per annum, for which ten poor children are instructed.
Parwiclc 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.