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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the borough of

Amber Valley Amber Valley is a local government district with borough status in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. Its council is based in Ripley. The district covers a semi-rural area lying to the north of the city of ...

, in

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

, England. The 2011 Census recorded a population for the parish of 229. Mackworth is about from Derby and from Ashbourne. It shares its name with the nearby

Mackworth Estate Mackworth is a suburb of the city of Derby, England. It is located to the northwest of the city, near Markeaton Park and the suburb of Mickleover, and forms part of the Mackworth & New Zealand ward. It is also known as Mackworth Estate, to disting ...

in Derby.

Heritage

Mackworth, a conservation village, 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 and former civil parish within Derby in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, 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 po ...

,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 status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area on the River Derwent, Derbyshire, River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original co ...

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 ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was King of England from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeede ...

. 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 Histo ...

, "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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