Wirksworth Wapentake

Visitor Information and Links

Directions, Parking, Public Transport,

Local attractions and Accommodation

If you like wandering around old towns, discovering odd little yards, catching a whiff of freshly made bread and meeting warm, friendly people, you will enjoy Wirksworth.

An image of Wirksworth: looking westward from Stoney Hill Lane, Bolehill:

“...situated in a very fine valley, bounded every way by high hills... the road (Oakerthorpe Turnpike) leads on the edge of a precipice which commands the valley in a most romantic manner. You look immediately down on a fine variety of inclosures, trees, houses, rocks, lead mines, all in picturesque confusion (Arthur Young, 1771).


The Dale	Greenhill		St Mary’s		Town Hall

Carsington Water		Ecclesbourne Valley Railway		High Peak Trail Middleton Top

Location and Directions

Map link

Sat-Nav

For Sat-Nav, use DE4 4ET for Wirksworth Market Place

and DE4 4LS for the Great Moot Field, National Stone Centre

Directions and town map:

PDF

Parking and other transport matters

There is extensive parking at the National Stone Centre adjacent to the Great Moot Field. For events in Wirksworth town there are car parks at Market Place; Harrison Drive next to the petrol station, Barmote Croft, Canterbury Road and at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway at Coldwell Street.

A special train service will be operated by the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway between their stations at Wirksworth, for the town centre, and Ravenstor, which is a short walk to the National Stone Centre.

Public transport from Derby and from Bakewell and Matlock is by Trent Barton bus service 6.1. See this link for information: Public Transport

Local Attractions and Links

Town Information
http://www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/wirksworth.htm

An useful overview of the town including places of interest

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
http://www.e-v-r.com

Volunteers of the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway are re-opening the line between Wirksworth and Duffield

National Stone Centre
http://www.nationalstonecentre.org.uk

Information about the National Stone Centre, millennium wall, gem panning and centre location

Steeple Grange Light Railway

http://www.steeplegrange.co.uk/

Information about the narrow gauge railway next to the High Peak Trail

Carsington Water
http://www.stwater.co.uk/carsington