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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Woodthorpe like this:
Woodthorpe.-- township, North Wingfield par., Derbyshire (containing part of Claycross), 6 miles NE. of Chesterfield, 1055 ac., pop. 817.
Woodthorpe is now part of NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Woodthorpe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Woodthorpe, in North East Derbyshire and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4159
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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