WINGFIELD (NORTH), a parish in the hundred
of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from
Chesterfield, comprising the townships of Claylane,
Stretton, Tupton, and Woodthorpe, and containing 1657
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £21. 6. 3., and in the patronage
of G. Barrow, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence
is a large handsome structure, situated at a dis-
tance from the village. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. A school is supported by a
trifling endowment; and at Deerleap, near Stretton, is
another, erected in 1790, by A. L. Maynard, who endowed
it with £15. 15. per annum, for teaching twentyfive
children. Wingfield is in the hondur 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 Roman
Iknield-street may be traced in this parish.