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Tissington| Village in Derbyshire, central England, 13 km/8 mi southwest of Wirksworth, in the Peak District national park; population (2001) 200. It holds annual well-dressing ceremonies. |
| On Ascension Day, five wells, which were thought to have been of benefit to the inhabitants during the Black Death (the 14th-century epidemic of bubonic plague), are decorated and visited in procession. |
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