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Wirksworth (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 53 05 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.0833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 34 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.5667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Important lead-mining center since the Roman occupation; limestone quarrying supplanted mining with the arrival of the railway. |
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| Wirksworth (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Werchesuorde (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Werchesuuorde (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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