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TITLES

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======Adam Bede
C030 Wanderings through Wirksworth: the home of Dinah Morris
C047 Dinah Morris and Wirksworth: local colour in George Elliot’s“Adam Bede”
C131 George Eliot and Wirksworth
C277 George Eliot in Derbyshire
C278 The Fringe of the George Eliot Country
======Archeology
C159 The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to AD 1500
C302 Minutes of a meeting discussing the discovery of Roman Coins at Wirksworth
C289 Skelton of a rhinoceros found at Wirksworth [1823]
======Buildings & architecture
C065 Educational use of Museums, ancient monuments & historic buildings:
a short course at Matlock College of Education 9-14 April 1984
C066 Education use of Museums, Ancient Monuments & Historic Buildings:
a short course at Matlock College of Education 9-14 April 1984
C067 Dept. of the Environment Urban District of Wirksworth, Derbyshire
3rd list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest
C082 Sites & buildings
C096 List of Historic Buildings thought to be Empty,
neglected or in need to repair in the County of Derbyshire
Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust
C151 Buildings of historic and architectural interest in Wirksworth
C247 Derbyshire [The Buildings of England]
C313 Reviving Buildings and Communities
C035 Arkwright, industry & architecture: diploma thesis in Architecture
C197 Architects in Practice
C237 Victorian Architecture in Britain
C274 The Architecture of Northern England
======Ceramics & china
C031 Ceramics of Derbyshire 1750-1975
C182 The ceramic art of Great Britain.2 vols
C315 Wirksworth China
C332 The china factory at Wirksworth, in Derbyshire
======Churches
C009 Local Styles of the English Parish Church
C057 The Congregational Church, Wirksworth,
C126 Wirksworth and its church
C147 A letter addressed to the members of the Independent Church, Wirksworth,
under the pastorate of the Rev F J Hoyte
C199 English Churchyard memorials
C206 Embracing the church
C287 The nineteenth century chapels of Wirksworth
C283 St Mary the Virgin, Wirksworth
C099 Deanery Opening Service: Wirksworth Deanery
======Conservation
C034 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers in Derbyshire
C124 Former Chapel to be Conservation H.Q.
C152 Wirksworth conservation areas – a perambulation
C209 It’s Well Worth Conserving Older Buildings in Country Towns
C243 Conservation Today
======Customs & dialect
C114 English Dialect Society. Reprinted glossaries. Part 2,
C210 Folk Customs of Britain
C253 Ancient customs of Derbyshire
C401 A Peak District calendar of events: annual events, customs & folklore.
======Derbyshire
C043 A History of Derbyshire
C050 Derbyshire
C068 Discover Derbyshire supplement
C092 Derbyshire: the county handbook;
C097 Derbyshire within living memory
C105 Discover Derbyshire: Wirksworth and surrounding area
C121 An Autumn holiday in Derbyshire
C153 Francis Frith’s Derbyshire
C166 Doing up Derbyshire
C248 Derbyshire
C251 A view of the present state of Derbyshire 2 Vols
C309 Hidden Derbyshire
C338 A Derbyshire miscellany: unconsidered trifles about town and county
C403 History of Derbyshire
C044 The Historic Towns of Derbyshire
C108 East Midlands Counties: Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and Lincoln
C033 Sketch of a tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire
C312 The extensive urban survey programme in Derbyshire
======Development Commission
C074 Action plan 1978-1983: Phase II: Submission to the Development Commission
Derbyshire County Council/High Peak Borough Council/Peak Park
C081 Wirksworth: submission to the Development Commission
C090 Wirksworth: Submission to the Development Commission
======Directories
C085 Brewer’s Derby Circular guide and commercial directory for 1823 and 1824
C104 Drake’s commercial directory of the Borough of Derby;
C127 Freebody’s directory of the town of Derby
C211 The Local Classified Telephone Directory Matlock pages
C216 The Wirksworth Directory 3rd ed Wirksworth G Marsden & Son 1908
C207 [List of copyholders, 1620]
======Education
C054 Community Education in Derbyshire: a consultative document:
response from Wirksworth and District
C075 Derbyshire Environmental Education Resources Guide
C016 Anthony Gell School, 1576-1976. A Celebration.
======Europa Nostra
C117 Europa Nostra Awards
C118 Europa Nostra Awards
C119 Europa Nostra medal for Wirksworth
======Guides
C020 Illustrated guide to County Towns and Villages of Britain
C023 Bemrose’s guide to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, etc.
C026 Black’s tourist guide to Derbyshire;
C091 The Derbyshire Dales (Official guide to West Derbyshire)
including Ashbourne, Bakewell, The Matlocks and Wirksworth
C094 Derbyshire guide 1980
C142 A guide to Matlock Bath and the Matlock’s
with excursions to places of interest in the neighbourhood
C143 Guide to Wirksworth & District
C183 The Matlock companion and illustrated tourists’ and visitors’ guide
to the beauties of the Peak, including Chatsworth, Haddon Hall,
Buxton, Bakewell, Dovedale, Castleton, etc. etc.
C221 Matlock: a practical guide for visitors
C259 Promenade 1994 your free guide to the Matlocks & Surrounding area
C281 Wirksworth: a third world guide
C339 Welcome to Wirksworth: a brief guide
C340 Welcome to Wirksworth: a brief guide leaflet
C342 The Derbyshire Dales: the Official Guide to West Derbyshire,
including Ashbourne, Bakewell, The Matlocks and Wirksworth
C343 West Derbyshire Guide [includes West Derbyshire District Council Accommodation List]
C360 Wirksworth, Derbyshire: official guide
C391 Wirksworth, Derbyshire: the official guide.
C083 Black’s tourist guide to Derbyshire; its towns, watering places, dales and mansions
C249 Pocket topography & gazetteer of England
C059 County Councils Gazette, Vol 73 No 2
C120 A literary gazetteer of England
======Heritage
C358 Wirksworth Heritage Centre: a prospectus
C359 Wirksworth Heritage Centre: a prospectus
======Land
C078 Residential land availability West Derbyshire District
C079 1992 Residential Land Availability in Derbyshire Dales
C080 Residential Land Availability West Derbyshire District
C329 The Making of the Industrial Landscape
C113 1801 Acreage Returns
======Lead mining
C014 Curious Derbyshire lead mining customs.
C062 Lead mining in Derbyshire
C087 The techniques, organisation, extent duration of lead mining in Roman Britain
C134 Capital formation in the Wirksworth lead mining industry Part 2
C135 Capital formation in the Wirksworth lead mining industry 1700-1800
C136 Capital formation in the Wirksworth Lead Mining Industry 1700-1800
C137 Lead Mining in the Wirksworth Area.
C138 A study of the capital formation and working conditions
in the Wirksworth lead mines, 1700-1900
C139 A visit to ‘Blobber’ Mine, Wirksworth, in the 1920’s
C008 An act to Define and Amend the Mineral Customs and to make better
provision for the Administration of Justice within the Soke and
Wapentake of Wirksworth, and within the Manors or Liberties of
Crich, Ashford, Stony Middleton and Eyam, Hartington, Litton,
Peak Forest, Tideswell and Youlgreave, in the County of Derby
C021 Prehistoric & Roman mining in the Peak District: present knowledge & future research.
C056 The Compleat mineral laws of Derbyshire
C154 the miners’ guide; or, Compleat miner
C155 The miner’s guide; or, Complete miner
C170 The laws and customs of the mines within the wapentake of Wirksworth, 1644
C172 Rara avis in terris; or, The compleat miner
C192 Derbyshire lead miners’ dish
C193 Derbyshire lead mining through the centuries
C194 The draining of Wirksworth lead mines.
C213 The Liberties and Customs of the Lead-mines within the Wapentake
of Wirksworth in the County of Derby
C240 Lead mining in Wirksworth district during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
C246 Fondinae Regales; or the history of laws & places of the chief mines
& minerals works in England, Wales & the English Pale in Ireland
C267 Report from the select committee on rating of mines
C291 Free men or wage slaves? The miners of the Wirksworth area in the 1650’s
C292 The later Gells & the decline of lead trade
C293 Women & the lead trade in 17th century Wirksworth, Derbyshire
C316 A treatise on The Derbyshire Mining Customs and Mineral Courts Act, 1852
C320 Thieveley Lead Mines 1629-1635
C326 Observations upon the state of the lead mines..
C337 History & customs of lead mining in the Wapentake of Wirksworth
C214 The rhymed chronicle of Edward Manlove
C290 Case history: aspects of the 17th century lead industry in
Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Revealed in the Courts
======Mining (other)
C122 Calcite mining in the Peak District
C123 Iron mining in the Peak District
C351 Water power in Peak District mining
C395 Wirksworth Wapentake Mining Records
C048 Lead & Zinc Ores of Durham, Yorkshire & Derbyshire with notes on the Isle of Man
C086 The limestone and dolomite resources of the country around Wirksworth, Derbyshire
C405 The story of our limestone sales
======Moot Hall & Barmote Court
C115 A brief historical note on the great Barmote Courts,
Wirksworth, Derbyshire
C116 Lead Miners Barmote Court
C260 A visit to the great Barmote Court, Wirksworth
C271 On being elected to the Grand Jury of the Barmote Court
C266 Repair of the Moot Hall. (From Duchy of Lancaster surveys, 5 Jas. I, Div IV, no.6)
C285 Moot Hall, Wirksworth
======the Peak
C037 Protecting the Peak
C107 The Peak District
C112 The Peak District
C242 The Peak of Derbyshire
C250 A pilgrimage in the Peak
C254 Peakland
C263 A Picture of the Peak District
C333 The High Peak to Sherwood
======People by name
C053 The diary of James Clegg of Chapel-en-le-Frith 1708-1755
C157 Harry Cowley: an appreciation
C187 Notable sons
C198 Lady Matilda Holland, Henry of Lancaster & the Manor of Melbourne
C202 A room of my own: Janet Reger
C220 Memorial Service: Sir Peter Hilton former Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire
C232 Notable Wirksworthians and Other People
C298 Samuel Ogden – a 17th century Derbyshire schoolmaster
C317 Travels through Stuart Britain: the adventures of John Taylor, the water poet
C350 Review: R R Angerstein’s travel diary, 1753-1755.
Industry in England & Wales from a Swedish perspective
C041 To the peaks of Fame: the reverend Abraham Bennet
C160 The Hatchett diary; ed by Arthur Raistrick
C181 [illustrated catalogue of Janet Reger designs]
C270 Research in Wirksworth: Maskery Family
C178 The Institution…and induction…of the Reverend Robert Swinbank Caney
to the Benefice of Wirksworth
======Places by name
C073 Derbyshire between Derby and Matlock; Particulars, plan,
views and conditions of sale of the Alderwasley Hall Estate
which Hampton & Sons will offer for sale by auction in
65 lots at the Assembly Rooms, Derby
on Friday, 8th August, 1930 £2.50
C171 Hopton Hall and Wirksworth
C324 Holders of the manor of Wirksworth
C001 Portrait of an English House – Babington House
C173 House and Home: Wigwell Lodge
C318 Testing station for tall structures at the Monkey Hole
C341 The Dale…Let’s keep its character
======Plans
C077 Matlock & Wirksworth areas: local plan brief
C088 Matlock and Wirksworth District Plans: Interim Local Plan Brief
C219 The Matlocks & Wirksworth Street Plan with Index
C344 The Matlocks and Wirksworth (Street plan with index)
C345 Wirksworth Local Plan Draft
C346 Wirksworth Local Plan, Statement of Public Consultation
C390 Wirksworth Town Scheme Leaflet
======Post
C288 Further survey of the Post Office at Belper and Wirksworth before 1838
C352 Postal History of Matlock & District
======Quarries
C164 The quarries: ironstone, limestone & sand
C165 The quarries; ironstone, limestone and sand
======Railways, engines
C204 Railways in Britain
C262 Railways in Wirksworth
C084 Stationary steam engines in Great Britain: A checklist
======Tolls
C279 Royal Commission on the Market Rights and Tolls
C322 Notes on some Derbyshire Toll Houses and Turnpike roads
======UN-INDEXED
C002 The alternative guide to British rock climbing
C005 Bibliographies of Derbyshire people, places and subjects
C006 Accommodation in the Derbyshire Dales
C007 An Act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts
within the parish of Wirksworth ……
C011 Born and Bred
C012 Allo; Allo, Late night shopping in Wirksworth
C013 All swings and no roundabouts: Wirksworth playgrounds.
C018 Arkwright Society Local History Trail
C024 English medieval boroughs: a hand-list
C025 Cartularium Saconium. A collection of Charters relating to Anglo-Saxon history.
C032 Estimates of Population size: Hearth Tax
C038 Satan’s footprints at Wirksworth
C042 The youth of Wirksworth
C049 The transition to the factory system in the Midlands textile industry
C051 Civic Service Thanksgiving…..
C055 Community Fayre: Wirksworth and District Community
C060 On an early Christian tomb at Wirksworth
C061 Creating a sense of civic pride
C063 Centenary Celebrations May 23rd to 25th, 1959 Souvenir Programme
C064 The cartulary of Darley Abbey, 2 vols
C069 Progress 82 (Supplement to 27 Apr 1982) DET
C076 List of firms on industrial estates, June, 1981
C089 Wirksworth Industrial Centre
C093 1851 Census Name Index Vol 5:6 Wirksworth Sub District
C098 Digging deep (letters)
C100 Discovering Derbyshire 1 Geographical Field Studies from Lea Green
C101 Domesday – The Domesday Book England’s Heritage Then and Now
C102 Notice of a clogg almanack from Wirksworth
C103 Wirksworth football play
with the towns of Alfreton, Belper, Chesterfield and Wirksworth
C110 The state of the poor
C111 Conference Report: Preservation for Profit at Wirksworth
C125 Four Topographical letters, written in Jul 1755,
upon a journey thro’ Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire
from a gentleman of London to his brother and sister in town
C129 The sculptured stone at Wirksworth
C133 Three Brochures
C140 Field meeting in Cromford/Middleton area held Sunday, 20th August, 1967
C141 Stafford’s Dream
C146 The Shell book of English Villages
C148 When a large family helped the income
C156 Sholto, the cycle hirer and other Wirksworth dealers
C158 The Early charters of Northern England & the North Midlands
C161 Have a say on town decline
C174 Village cricket
C175 The true history of the Elephant Man
C177 North Midland Country
C180 A Calendar of the Shrewsbury & Talbot Papers in Lambeth Palace
C184 Notice of some medieval paving tiles and other relics discovered at Wirksworth
C188 Anglo-Saxon art to AD 900
C189 [in] Kerry MSS Sections 4673, 4680, 4680, 4681, 4682, 4684
C196 The land we live in: a pictorial & literary sketch – book of the British Empire
C200 Leisure in Matlock and Wirksworth: A handbook of local leisure time activities
C201 Letters-Digging Deep
C205 Rock of ages
C208 Lowdown showdown
C212 Main market place centre
C215 Manor of Newcastle Document
C217 The natural history of England & a description of each particular county…
C226 Man Made the Town
C227 Historic places around Buxton
C229 National Encyclopaedia
C231 Big boost for community transport
C233 Newscuttings on microfiche: Derbyshire Ref 53800
C234 The artificial drainage of the Wirksworth-Cromford area
C235 Sough Hydrology of the Wirksworth, Matlock, Youlgreave area. Part 2.
The Meerbrook and Cromford Sough Complex
C236 Observations 1984 [in] Derbyshire Tatler
C238 Stained Glass in England
C241 Over the Shop
C244 Along the Pennine Way
C252 Heart of Stone
C255 Food prices in outlying areas
C256 Pride of Place Competition 1986
C257 The Wirksworth saga: a short history over the last 300 million years
C258 Princess Margaret’s visits to Wirksworth
C261 Quakers in Wirksworth
C264 Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln
C265 Register of Electors of the County of Derby. Southern division
C268 Reports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire concerning charities and education…
C282 The Saga of Walter the bell
C294 Sketch of a lecture delivered at the Tent Meeting at Wirksworth on Sep 5, 1852
C297 The Down your way Book;
C299 The novel side of Wirksworth
C303 The Portway
C305 The ever open door
C308 Extracts from Wirksworth W.E.A. Creative Writing
C311 Monuments to 25 years of Muddle
C321 “There has been a tumult in the lower parts of this county…”
C323 The Visitors Handbook to Matlock
C327 Town in the hills with an air of charm
C349 Wirksworth’s warrior spirit wins battle of reinvention
C353 Some Antiquities of Derbyshire
C364 Wirksworth Wine Agents Letter 3rd December 1678
C366 Wirksworth Parish Magazine 1897-1900
C384 Civic and Thanksgiving service to commemorate the wedding of
the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Church of St Mary’s Wirksworth
C386 Wirksworth Traffic Census
C387 Wirksworth [Vicars]
C400 Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Almanac
1869-71, 1873-85, 1887-90, 1894, 1896-98, 1901-5, 1916-40, 1962-64.
C402 Helping a town to help itself
C406 The Farmers Tour Through the East of England
======Wakes
C295 Wirksworth Wakes, Derbyshire, issued by John Smedley, Lea Mills September 16, 1853
C296 Wirksworth wakes, Derbyshire
C393 Wirksworth Wakes Week Festival Programme 7
C130 A genuine and authentic account of all the fairs
in England and Wales; as settled since alteration of the style
======Walks & rambles
C222 Peak District – Town Walks
C223 Short Circular Walks Around Wirksworth
C224 Walking in South Derbyshire
C225 Walking the High Peak Trail
C179 Derbyshire rambles
======Weaving
C301 Notes on the lecture course for weavers, Wirksworth
C314 The tape weaving industry
C300 Some notes on the recent investigation of the local history of textile manufactures
======Well dressing
C169 Legendary lore of the holy wells of England
C230 Ancient Wells & Springs in Derbyshire
C245 It’s well worth dressing
C330 Well-Dressing: an example of water-folklore in the Peak District
C362 Wirksworth Journal. The Magazine of the Wirksworth Well Dressing Association
C389 Wirksworth Well-Dressings 1978. Official Guide,
with information and historical notes about the Town and Well-Dressing
C396 Wirksworth Well Dressings and Carnival, 1983 & 1984
C397 Wirksworth Well Dressings 1976
C398 Wirksworth Well Dressings 150th Anniversary June 4-6 1977 Official Guide
C361 Wirksworth – home of tap dressing
C286 The natural, experimental and medicinal waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire…
======Wirksworth
C004 A little book about Wirksworth by CHB
C015 Another first for Wirksworth
C019 Around Wirksworth;
C027 Wirksworth Town
C028 A Spirited Centenary: Wirksworth at home & abroad
C029 Wandering through Wirksworth
C039 Wirksworth – full of life
C046 A little book about Wirksworth
C052 How Wirksworth Looks
C070 Wirksworth
C071 Wirksworth
C072 Wirksworth
C106 Why Wirksworth’s worth a look
C144 Wirksworth & Five Miles Round
C145 Wirksworth and five miles round
C150 Your Derbyshire: Wirksworth
C176 The importance of Wirksworth
C185 Wirksworth Case Study
C190 Wirksworth
C191 The kingdom of Wirksworth
C203 The life & times of Wirksworth
C269 A Wirksworth well remembered
C276 Wirksworth [in] Derbyshire Life & Countryside Volume 50 no 40 April 1985
C284 Wirksworth [in] Derbyshire Life and Countryside Vol 38 no 5 May 1973
C304 Memories of Wirksworth
C306 Wirksworth, a town re-born
C307 Wonderful Wirksworth
C310 A look at Wirksworth
C319 New Life for Wirksworth
C325 The parish of Wirksworth
C328 Townscape Wirksworth
C334 Wirksworth in the Dawn
C335 Two New Faces in Wirksworth
C347 What Wirksworth Means to me
C348 Wirksworth’s hidden ways
C354 Wirksworth
C355 Wirksworth, Derbyshire
C356 Wirksworth: A Country Town that stirred the heir to England’s Throne
C363 Wirksworth: the latest
C365 Wirksworth – now due back on the map
C367 Wirksworth Past and Present
C368 Wirksworth
C369 Wirksworth Progress
C376 Wirksworth Rage or Wyrcesuuyrth as it was
C377 Wirksworth: Revitalizing a Derbyshire Town
C378 Wirksworth: Revitalising a Derbyshire Town.
C379 Wirksworth shows off its natural charm.
C380 Wirksworth’s special charm
C381 The Wirksworth Story; Made in Wirksworth.
C382 The Wirksworth Story New Life for an old town
C383 The Wirksworth Story: new life for an old town
C385 Wirksworth a town reborn
C388 Wirksworth Video: a video including slides by Jack Doxey.
C394 Wirksworth Wall Chart
C399 Wonderful Wirksworth
C404 Yesteryear: Old Wirksworth – Letters.
C003 16 Permanent views of Wirksworth & district
C022 Wirksworth Town Centre
C036 We’re the forgotten town
C040 Wirksworth heritage
C045 Hundred of Appletree, & Wapentake of Wirksworth
C109 EC cash consolation for Wirksworth area
C128 Wirksworth: a forgotten town transformed
C195 Town in bid to go it alone
C218 Matlock Mercury Supplement – Wirksworth Today
C239 Geographical aspects of the development of Wirksworth
from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, 1800-1965
C275 Derbyshire towns and villages; 7 Wirksworth
C331 Repton, Northworthy (Derby) & Wirksworth illus
C336 Up Greenhill & Down the Dale: an Interpretive plan for Wirksworth, Derbyshire
C392 Wirksworth, Derbyshire: the official handbook.
C095 1, The Dale, Wirksworth
C149 A short history of Wirksworth
C167 The History of Wirksworth and five miles round.
C168 A Wirksworth boyhood 1941-1958
C017 A survey of the soake and manor of Wirksworth.
C163 Wirksworth Survey
C272 Our old country towns
C010 Prize Winning Village
C132 Getting it taped Wirksworth Sound Scene
C162 Reminiscences of a Wheatsheaf wanderer:
time spent in Wirksworth – a market town in England & special to me
======Wirksworth Project
C186 The Wirksworth Project – Phase 2
C228 A Model for other towns: the Wirksworth Project
C280 Wirksworth Project wins top award 1984.
C357 The Wirksworth Project and the Wirksworth Civic Society
C370 The Wirksworth Project
C371 The Wirksworth Project
C372 Wirksworth Project Annual Report.
Wirksworth Project Steering Committee
September 1982-1983, 1983-84, 1984-5, 1986-7
C373 The Wirksworth Project Annual Report Sept 1983 – Sept 1984
C374 The Wirksworth Project
C375 The Wirksworth Project
C273 Regeneration: Wirksworth
C058 Transformation of a valley

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