Wirksworth.-- market town, par., and township with ry. sta., Derbyshire, 13¼ miles NW. of Derby by rail - par., 14,154 ac., pop. 6950; town and township, 3020 ac., pop. 3678; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Tuesday. Wirksworth is an ancient market town, with a fine 13th century church; and a moot hall of 1814, where mining cases are tried. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the cotton mfr., but most of them in the lead mines; and in the immediate vicinity are establishments for the production of ginghams, hosiery, hats, tape, and silk, and for iron smelting.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))