Derbyshire

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**Derbyshire**
Derbyshire shown within England.
Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region	East Midlands
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 21st 2,625 km² Ranked 20th 2,547 km²
Admin HQ	Matlock
ISO 3166-2	GB-DBY
ONS code	17
NUTS 3	UKF12/13
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 20th 981,200 373 / km² Ranked 11th 747,500
Ethnicity	96.0% White 2.3% S.Asian
Politics
Derbyshire County Council http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/
Executive	Labour
Members of Parliament	Margaret Beckett Liz Blackman Natasha Engel Paul Holmes Bob Laxton Tom Levitt Judy Mallaber Patrick McLoughlin Dennis Skinner Mark Todd
Districts
High Peak Derbyshire Dales South Derbyshire Erewash Amber Valley North East Derbyshire Chesterfield Bolsover Derby (Unitary)

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. Highest point is Kinder Scout, 636 m (2088 ft). The county contains part of the National Forest, and borders on Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire.

It has a two-tier local government, with a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils. Apart from 13 towns with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, there is a large amount of sparsely populated agricultural upland: 75% of the population live in 25% of the area. Although Derbyshire is generally considered to be in the East Midlands, some parts, such as High Peak, are closer to the northern cities of Manchester and Sheffield, and are considered to be in the north for some purposes, such as BBC regional television and postal areas; for example Chesterfield is in the Sheffield (S) postal area and the High Peak is in the Stockport (SK) postal area.

Before 1998 the administrative county included the city of Derby. Derby is now a unitary authority, but remains part of Derbyshire for ceremonial purposes.

1 History
2 Economy
3 Settlements
4 Places of interest
5 Emblems
6 Trivia
7 See also

[edit] History

Main article: History of Derbyshire.

Derbyshire was traditionally divided into six hundreds, namely Appletree, High Peak, Morleyston and Litchurch, Repton and Gresley, Scarsdale, Wirksworth. These were based on the seven earlier wapentakes recorded in the Domesday Book, with the merging of Repton and Gresley wapentakes.

Derbyshire had a detached part in north-western Leicestershire, surrounding Measham and Donisthorpe. This escaped regularisation in 1844, and was incorporated into Leicestershire by the Local Government Act 1888. The thin strip of Leicestershire between the exclave and Derbyshire, containing Overseal and Netherseal, is now considered part of Derbyshire. A small area, including the parishes of Stapenhill and Winshill, part the borough of Burton upon Trent was incorporated into Staffordshire by the same Act.

Apart from this, some parishes in historic Derbyshire, including Dore, Norton and Totley, are now in the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire; and Mellor and Ludworth were incorporated into Marple urban district in Cheshire 1936 and now form part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester.

In 1974 the former area of Tintwistle Rural District was incorporated into the new non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire having previously been part of the administrative county of Cheshire.

[edit] Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added^[1]	Agriculture^[2]	Industry^[3]	Services^[4]
1995	9,341	125	4,452	4,762
2000	11,558	98	4,945	6,515
2003	13,733	95	5,118	8,520

^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
^ includes hunting and forestry
^ includes energy and construction
^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

[edit] Settlements

This is a list of the towns in Derbyshire; for a complete list of settlements see list of places in Derbyshire.

Alfreton, Alton, Ashbourne, Ashford-in-the-Water, Ashover.
Bakewell, Bamford, Baslow, Beeley, Belper, Birch Vale, Bolehill, Bolsover, Borrowash, Brassington, Bretby, Brimington, Burbage, Buxton
Calver, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Chelmorton, Chesterfield, Chinley, Clay Cross, Clowne, Cressbrook, Creswell, Cromford, Crowden, Curbar
Derby, Dronfield, Duffield
Earl Sterndale, Eckington, Edale, Edensor, Eyam
Fernilee
Gamesley, Glossop, Great Hucklow
Hadfield, Hartington, Hathersage, Hatton, Hayfield, Heage, Heanor, Hope
Ilkeston
Little Hucklow, Long Eaton, Littleover
Marston Montgomery, Marston on Dove, Matlock, Melbourne, Miller's Dale, Morley
New Mills, Newhaven
Over Haddon,Osmaston
Parwich, Peak Forest, Pinxton
Riber, Ripley
Sandiacre, Shipley, Shirebrook, Stainsby, Staveley, Stoney Middleton, Stretton, Sudbury, Swadlincote
Tansley, Taxal, Thornhill, Tibshelf, Tideswell, Tunstead Milton
Walton, Wardlow, Westhouses, Whaley Bridge, Whitwell, Wingerworth, Wirksworth, Woolley Moor
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[edit] Places of interest

Alfreton Hall
Alsop Hall
Arbor Low — English Heritage
Barlborough Hall
Belper Natural Health Centre
Bradbourne Hall
Bradley Hall
Bretby Hall, see also Earls of Chesterfield
Buxton Hall
Buxton Museum & Art Gallery
Calke Abbey — National Trust
Carsington Reservoir
Chatsworth — a stately home, part of Treasure Houses of England; see also Dukes of Devonshire
Coxbench Hall
Creswell Crags
Crich Stand
Crooked Spire
Cromford and High Peak Railway
Derwent Reservoir
Derwent Valley Mills — a World Heritage Site
Ednaston Manor
Eyam Hall
Fenney Bentley Old Hall
Flagg Hall
Glossop Hall
Great Longstone Hall
Haddon Hall
Hardwick Hall
Hartington Hall
Heage Windmill
Heights of Abraham
Hob Hurst's House — English Heritage
Howden Reservoir
Ilam Hall
Kedleston Hall
Kinder Scout
Ladybower Reservoir
Longdendale Chain of reservoirs
Longdendale Trail, a long distance footpath
Longford Hall
Mam Tor
Millennium Bridge, New Mills
National Tramway Museum, Crich
National Stone Centre, Wirksworth
Nine Ladies Stone Circle — English Heritage
Norbury Hall
Ogston Reservoir
Parwich Hall
Peveril Castle
Renishaw Hall
Riber Castle
Speedwell Cavern
Sudbury Hall — National Trust
Sutton Scarsdale Hall — English Heritage
The Torrs, New Mills
Thornbridge Hall
Tissington Hall
Well dressing — an ancient custom
Wingfield Manor — English Heritage

[edit] Emblems

The unofficial flag of Derbyshire

As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Jacob's Ladder as the county flower. In 2006, an unofficial county flag was introduced, largely on the initiative of BBC Radio Derby. It is one of a few such county flags to be recently adopted, soon after the Flag of Lincolnshire and the Flag of Devon.

[edit] Trivia

Derbyshire was the filming location of the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice: Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley.

[edit] See also

Derbyshire lead mining history

Ceremonial county of Derbyshire
Unitary authorities:	Derby
Boroughs/Districts:	Amber Valley • Bolsover • Chesterfield • Derbyshire Dales • Erewash • High Peak • North East Derbyshire • South Derbyshire
Cities/Towns:	Alfreton • Ashbourne • Bakewell • Belper • Bolsover • Buxton • Chapel-en-le-Frith • Chesterfield • Clay Cross • Derby • Dronfield • Glossop • Heanor • Ilkeston • Killamarsh • Long Eaton • Matlock • New Mills • Ripley • Sandiacre • Shirebrook • Staveley • Swadlincote • Whaley Bridge • Wirksworth See also: List of civil parishes in Derbyshire