Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire

Description
Middleton-by-Wirksworth, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Derbyshire. The village stands 1 mile NW by N of Wirksworth station on the M.R., and 2 miles WSW of Cromford; is a considerable place; and has a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Wirksworth. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Acreage, 991; population, 1007. Excellent marble is quarried, and lead ore is mined. The well-known "Hopton Wood Stone" is quarried in the parish and found nowhere else. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the townships of Ible and Ivonbrook Grange, and was constituted in 1845. Population, 1173. The parish council consists of seven members. The parish also sends two members to the district council. Ivonbrook Grange belongs to Lord Scarsdale. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Wirksworth. The church was built in 1839, and was restored and reseated in 1884-85. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and also a Primitive Methodist chapel in Ible township.