Peak District Online Launches New Wirksworth Video

Jan. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- Nestling in a bowl of hills at the northern end of the beautiful Ecclesbourne Valley about six miles south of Matlock and bisected by the Cromford to Ashbourne road, Wirksworth is one of the oldest settlements in the county, having been almost continuously occupied for at least two thousand years.

It has a long and fluctuating history, recorded from early Saxon times. The Romans mined lead here, but when they arrived around 55 - 60 AD, the Iron Age Celts already had an established local economy, with two ancient trading routes, later used by the Anglo-Saxon's as `Portwegs' or Portways, intersecting at a place occupied today by Wirksworth's enchanting, crazily- tilted Market Place.

Please view the Peak District video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuFHyPukpk



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