WINGERWORTH, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 2 miles (Sby W.) from Chesterfield, containing 459 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The Iknield-street passes through the parish, in which large quantities of coal, iron-stone, and freestone, are obtained. A school for twenty children is supported by annual subscriptions, amounting to about £20. On Stonedge cliff are several basins, and two seats, excavated in the rock. The brass head of a capulta was found a few years ago on the Roman road. Wingerworth Hall was taken possession of and garrisoned for the parliament, in I643 the present large and elegant mansion was erected in 1728.