Wirksworth Heritage Centre
WELCOME TO THE FASCINATING STORY OF WIRKSWORTH
  • Heritage Centre with animated displays
  • Exciting spaces to explore
  • Gift Shop and Art Gallery
  • Restaurant
The Heritage Centre aims to give to the casual visitor or serious researcher alike an understanding of the life of a small town from its inception to the present times.

It is strategically placed at the end of the Crown Yard which opens out onto the present market place and occupies a building which was once a mill for the production of silk and velvet textiles.

Did you know?
Did you know
When you make comments about red tape you are referring to real red tape used to bind government documents - made here in Wirksworth

Author George Eliot had connections with the town and set her famous novel Adam Bede here

Wirksworth holds an art festival in September each year, attended by thousands of visitors and featuring hundreds of artists and performers

Well dressing was banned by the early Christians along with all other forms of water worship - but the tradition refused to die.

Crown Yard Kitchen

Licensed Restaurant


Freshly cooked good food
from 9 - 4.30 daily and 9.30 - 4.30 Sundays

The Heritage Centre
There's much more to see...!
The Quarry man

The Drem Cave

Homefront memories
Wirksworth Heritage Centre
Crown Yard, Market Place, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Tel: 01629 825225 during opening hours (or leave a message at other times)
Email: enquiries@storyofwirksworth.co.uk