[2] The village is about 5 miles (8 km) from East Midlands Airport and junction 23a of the M1 motorway where it meets the A42 road.

[4] The Domesday Book of 1086 records Henry de Ferrers as holding four carucates of land at "Werditone".

[6] Fragments remain of a Perpendicular Gothic screen that was added later in the Middle Ages.

[11] By the 1990s many of the local collieries had ceased operating and the village began to lose its mining identity.

Local nicknames for Worthington have included "Paraffin City" due to its late adoption of electricity, and "Yawny Box"[5] which is an obsolete Derbyshire word for a donkey.