the road between Draycott and Sawley, and entered the parish was known as Wilne Cross, which historically possibly supported an actual wayside cross for directional and guidance purposes. A nearby stile sited along the parish boundary edge was known in Victorian times as Deadman's Stile, and it has been suggested it was so named by locals due to the location affording lengthy views of the procession from Wilne Cross to the church with the flat elevation of the land. The walk now forms part of the wider Midshires Way long-distance path. Modern period Facilities and economy Draycott Isolation Hospital opened in around 1905 to the northeast of the parish. The hospital was for medical cases that required isolation, it later became a tuberculosis hospital. The hospital closed in around 2003 and the buildings converted into the residential Woodland Park development. A house within this was one of Derbyshire's most expensive sold in 2021. Shardlow Rural District Council established a Draycott and Breaston sewerage and disposal works to the east of Draycott village at the turn of the 20th century. This remained a key local water processing facility until the nearby Church Wilne Water Treatment Works was created within Breaston parish in 1967. A pumping station remains onsite. The First World War impacted trade greatly, and the textile and lace businesses in the village began to feel the strain. The mills had an excess of production space, some of which were let out to other proprietors and businesses. Victoria Mills started life as a tenement mill, but from that period outside operators who were not associated to lace manufacturers started hiring space, including hosiery and knitted outerwear manufacturers, upholstery manufacturers, dyers and electrical engineers involving a firm building relays and lighting systems started by a partnership of Jack Parry and Henry Martin in 1943. It was this later business named as Parry's that came to dominate operations at Victoria, by 1948 they had moved in and with a huge expansion programme took over the ownership of the mill in July 1957, the last lace manufacturer leaving the mill in February 1970. In 1972 they expanded further with a catering arm which is their core interest into the present day. In 1997 the company vacated the mills but were still based at an industrial site adjacent. The Victoria Mill site was partially refurbished with flats in the middle 2000s and the full