Carsington Water

Carsington is a village in the middle of the Derbyshire Dales, England; it adjoins the hamlet of Hopton, and is close to the historic town of Wirksworth and village of Brassington.According to the 1991 Census, the population was 111, increasing to 251 at the 2011 Census.

Hopton is a small village adjacent to the village of Carsington and two miles away from the market town of Wirksworth in the Peak District.Evidence of humans visiting, possibly 200,000 years ago during a warm period known as the Aveley Interglacial, is given by the discovery of a Middle Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe nearby.

Hopton Hall is an 18th-century country house at Hopton, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II listed building.The Manor of Hopton, anciently the seat of the de Hopton family, was acquired by the Gell family in 1553 by Ralph Gell (1491–1564) who also purchased lands at Darley Abbey and Rocester.

St Margaret's Church, Carsington is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Carsington Derbyshire.