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Wessington, South Dakota

Wessington is a city in Beadle and Hand Counties in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The population was 170 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Wessington is located at ....

Wessington is a village in the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 county of Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

. It is in the North East Derbyshire

North East Derbyshire

North East Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It borders the districts of Chesterfield, Bolsover, Amber Valley and Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, and Sheffield and Rotherham in South Yorkshire....

 district of the county. It is near to the town of Alfreton

Alfreton

Alfreton is a town and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, adjoining the Bolsover and North East Derbyshire districts. It was formerly a Norman Manor and later an Urban District. The population of the Alfreton Ward was 7,928 at the 2001 Census...

 and the village of Brackenfield

Brackenfield

Brackenfield is a village and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.The village is about five miles east of Matlock and four and a half miles northwest of Alfreton. It is also close to Clay Cross. Set in farming country, the village is located around a large...

.

The civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 of Wessington is, along with Shirland

Shirland

Shirland is a parish and former mining village in Derbyshire, England. It is continuous with the villages of Higham, Stretton and Stonebroom. Shirland has existed since at least 1086. Local politics is largely Labour. The River Amber flows through the parish....

 and Higham

Higham, Derbyshire

Higham is a small village in Derbyshire, England. It is located on the B6013 and A61 roads. Nearby settlements include Shirland, Stretton, Alfreton and Clay Cross....

, the most southerly parish in the district. It stands on the west side of the Amber Valley

Amber Valley

Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in Derbyshire, England. It takes its name from the River Amber and covers a semi-rural area with a number of small towns formerly based around coal mining and engineering...

 on the Alfreton to Matlock Road. The settlement is centered around a large village green

Village green

A village green is a common open area which is a part of a settlement. Traditionally, such an area was often common grass land at the centre of a small agricultural settlement, used for grazing and sometimes for community events...

 and an old pub

Public house

A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...

, "The Horse and Jockey".

When the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 was compiled in 1086, the village was known as Wistanestune, which may have been derived from the Anglo-Saxon

Old English language

Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century...

 words for 'water' and 'town', meaning "wet place". The village was then called Washington before acquiring its present name. The parish was separated from Crich

Crich

Crich is a village in Derbyshire in England. It has the National Tramway Museum inside the Crich Tramway Village, and at the summit of Crich Hill above, a Memorial Tower for those of the Sherwood Foresters regiment who died in battle, particularly in World War I.Built in 1923 on the site of an...

 in 1857. At the time, the village had a fairly large stocking frame

Stocking frame

A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry. It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589...

 knitting

Knitting

Knitting is a method by which thread or yarn may be turned into cloth or other fine crafts. Knitted fabric consists of consecutive rows of loops, called stitches. As each row progresses, a new loop is pulled through an existing loop. The active stitches are held on a needle until another loop can...

industry, with the majority of the inhabitants being employed in it.

Business in Wessington

A chip shop opens on Thursday Fridays and Saturdays only 5pm until 9pm,
The Horse and Jockey Pub, a second pub, called the Three Horseshoes, and a car mechanics.

Former businesses include a Garden Centre which has now closed down and and is to be redeveloped, a post office, co-op on back lane, Abbotts shop opposite the Horse and Jockey, George Phillips the greengrocer opposite the Three Horse Shoes, Cecil Brown the hardware dealer in friday yard and in a new shop below the post office and Stan Lamb's blacksmith who's hovel was further below the post office.

Parish Council

The Parish council consists of the Chairman A Fisher, and councillors: N Parkes, B Lewis, J Pritchard, S Roberts, P Emmerson and a Clerk to the Parish Council. The Parish Council website is www.wessingtonparishcouncil.co.uk

The Praish Council is within the ward of Shirland which is within the District of North East Derbyshire.

The Greens

Wessington has land deemed as "village greens" and others which are "common Land". There is also nature reserve.