Brindley Well 1999

Village information

Wormhill is a very small farming community between Tideswell and Buxton in the Peak District.

One of its claims to fame is that the civil engineer James Brindley (of canal and bridge fame) was born in Tunstead, in Wormhill parish in 1716.  Today Wormhill dresses the ornate Brindley Well in late August, and does a second smaller dressing in the churchyard. The Brindley well usually features ornate representations of ecclesiastical or secular buildings.