Wormhill is a village and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, situated east by north of Buxton. The population of the civil parish including Peak Dale was 1,020 at the 2011 Census. Wormhill was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and containing 20 acres of meadow. The name is said by the English Place-Name Society to be derived from the Old English 'Wyrma's hyll'.There was a tradition of wolf hunting in Wormhill in the fourteenth century.