Mackworth is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the borough of

Amber Valley Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. It covers a semi-rural zone with four main towns whose economy was based on coal mining and remains to some extent ...

, in

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

, England. The 2011 Census recorded a population for the parish of 229. Mackworth is about two miles (3.2 km) from Derby and ten miles (16 km) from Ashbourne. It shares its name with the nearby

Mackworth Estate Mackworth is a suburb and electoral ward of the city of Derby, England. Is it located on the north-west of the city near to Markeaton Park and the suburb of Mickleover. It is also known as Mackworth Estate, to distinguish it from the nearby Mackw ...

in Derby.

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Mackworth, a

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, is mentioned in the

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and has evidence of Roman occupation. The site of the original medieval village can still be seen in the slopes of the hillside. Historically, the parish also contained the neighbouring village of

Markeaton Markeaton is a suburban village within Derby in the East Midlands of England. It is in the Mackworth Ward of Derby City Council. The village lies on the narrow Markeaton Lane road. It is home to the popular Markeaton Park. The name is derived f ...

,Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland
London (May 1891), p. 250. now within the

Derby Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gai ...

city boundary. In 1881 the population of Mackworth village was given as 253, whilst Markeaton was given as 758, making a total of 1,011 in the parish of Mackworth. The village shares its stone-built

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with Markeaton. The church has memorials to the Mundy family of Markeaton, whose arms date back to the reign of

Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066. Edward was the son of Æth ...

. Close by is

Mackworth Castle Mackworth Castle was a 14th- or 15th-century structure located in Derbyshire, at the upper end of Mackworth village near Derby. The home for several centuries of the Mackworth family, it was at some point reduced to the ruins of a gatehouse sug ...

, seat of the Mackworth family until the death of Sir Thomas Mackworth in 1640. The castle estate was later the property of Lord Scarsdale.

Notable residents

William Emes William Emes (1729 or 1730–13 March 1803) was an English landscape gardener. Biography Details of his early life are not known but in 1756 he was appointed head gardener to Sir Nathaniel Curzon at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. He left this post ...

(c. 1729–1803), landscape gardener, moved to a farmhouse at Bowbridge Fields about 1860. *

Samuel Richardson Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'' (1740), '' Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady'' (1748) and ''The History of ...

, "father of the English novel", was baptised here in 1689.John A. Dussinger, "Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)", ODNB, Oxford University Press, 2004
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* * {{authority control Villages in Derbyshire Civil parishes in Derbyshire Geography of Amber Valley

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