The parish lock-up is believed to have been built late in the 18th century.[8] It is an octagonal building[6] with an octagonal spire but is called the Round House.[8] It is built of brick and is a scheduled monument.[8]
Worthington Methodist Chapel was built in 1820.[9]
Worthington Primary school[10] opened in about 1926.[5] The school use an image of the 'Round House' as their logo which was created by Michael Colley, a local resident and landlord of the local pub the Malt shovel. He created the design in the early 1990s which substantially became the village logo.
The parish was predominantly rural until the 20th century, when the village was rapidly expanded[citation needed] to house workers for nearby collieries including New Lount Colliery.[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.[12]
National Cycle Route 6 passes through the parish, and at the site of the former railway station it joins the trackbed of the former railway to Melbourne, Derbyshire. In the parish the cycle route is called the Cloud Trail.[citation needed]
^ abDane, Rev. H.A. (April 2001). "Saint Matthew's, Worthington, a Short Guide". Saint Matthew's Church, Worthington. The United Benefice of Breedon and Worthington. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
Dawson, John (2003). Hand-one-down Hearsays of the Parish of Breedon, Griffydam, Isley Walton, Langley, Lount, Newbold, Scotland, Staunton Harold, Tonge, Wilson and Worthington 1870-1970. Breedon: Rev. John Dawson. p. 188.