WORMHILL, a chapelry in the parish of TIDESWELL,
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 2
miles (W. S. W.) from Tideswell, containing 347 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed
with £30 per annum private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of certain
Trustees. The chapel is dedicated to St. Margaret. A
small school, erected by the inhabitants, is supported by
several trifling bequests. Wormhill 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. The river
Wye runs in the vicinity through the most picturesque
scenery, particularly that of Chee dale, in this chapelry:
the rocks on both sides of the stream present a bold
face of limestone and lava, in alternate strata, which,
when viewed from the narrow dell, appear, by the uniformity
of their recesses and projections, to have been
once united, and torn asunder by some remarkable convulsion
of the earth.