Amber Valley - Definition and Overview

Borough of Amber Valley
Shown within Derbyshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	East Midlands
Admin. County:	Derbyshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 170th 265.39 km²
Admin. HQ:	Ripley
ONS code:	17UB
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 167th 117,046 441 / km²
Ethnicity:	99.1% White
Politics
Amber Valley Borough Council http://www.ambervalley.gov.uk
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Judy Mallaber, Patrick McLoughlin

Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in Derbyshire, England. It covers a semi-rural area with a number of small towns formerly based around coal mining and engineering.

The village of Crich and the Amber Valley area are the setting for the popular television programme Peak Practice.

Towns and places in the district include:

• Ripley
• Belper
• Alfreton
• Heanor
• Heage

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Alfreton, Belper, Heanor and Ripley and Belper Rural District.

Parishes

• Aldercar and Langley Mill, Alderwasley, Alfreton
• Belper
• Codnor, Crich
• Denby, Dethick, Lea and Holloway, Duffield
• Hazelwood, Heanor and Loscoe, Holbrook, Horsley, Horsley Woodhouse
• Idridgehay, Alton and Ashleyhay, Ironville
• Kedleston, Kilburn, Kirk Langley
• Mackworth, Mapperley
• Pentrich
• Quarndon
• Ravensdale Park, Riddings, Ripley
• Shipley, Shottle and Postern, Smalley, Somercotes, South Wingfield, Swanwick
• Turnditch and Windley
• Weston Underwood

Districts of England - East Midlands
Amber Valley | Ashfield | Bassetlaw | Blaby | Bolsover | Boston | Broxtowe | Charnwood | Chesterfield | Corby | Daventry | Derby | Derbyshire Dales | East Lindsey | East Northamptonshire | Erewash | Gedling | Harborough | High Peak | Hinckley and Bosworth | Kettering | Leicester | Lincoln | Mansfield | Melton | Newark and Sherwood | Northampton | North East Derbyshire | North Kesteven | North West Leicestershire | Nottingham | Oadby and Wigston | Rushcliffe | Rutland | South Derbyshire | South Holland | South Kesteven | South Northamptonshire | Wellingborough | West Lindsey
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Derbyshire - Leicestershire - Lincolnshire - Northamptonshire - Nottinghamshire