Following on from last year’s cover splash in Derbyshire Life, there’s a lengthy six-page feature on Parwich in the April edition of The Derbyshire Magazine, containing many colour photographs of the village and its inhabitants, as well as interviews with a wide range of villagers. The reporter has done a fine and detailed job, and the article is well worth a read.
Copies of The Derbyshire Magazine are on sale in the new shop, priced at £1.75.
It’s a fantastic article & some great pictures, I love the one of Bertie!
It is on sale in our neww Parwich Shop at the Sycamore
I have just read the article and, although it was most interesting, it is embarrassing to see my mistakes repeated in print. The derivation of the ‘wich’ ending in the name ‘Parwich’ is thought to be from the Saxon ‘wick’ indicating a dairy farm, however this got put as being of Roman origin in the Parwich Walk book. Unfortunately the mistake was repeated in the new article.
Great article, splendid photos, lots of excellent focus on local people – but the church doesn’t have plans to introduce toilets! (we considered this once, but the complexity of putting a septic tank into a graveyard, or running a waste pipe out to Church Walk, proved too great).