| Derbyshire
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| Geography
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| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
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| Region: | East Midlands
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Area:
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin. area | Ranked 21st
2,625 km²
Ranked 20th
2,547 km²
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| Admin HQ: | Matlock
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| ISO 3166-2: | GB-DBY
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| ONS code: | 17
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| NUTS 3: | UKF12/13
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| Demographics
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Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
- Admin. council
- Admin. pop. | Ranked 20th
962,502
367 / km²
Ranked 11th
739,253
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| Ethnicity: | 96.0% White
2.3% S.Asian
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| Politics
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Derbyshire County Council
http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/
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| Executive: | Labour
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| Members of Parliament
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| Harry Barnes, Margaret Beckett, Liz Blackman, Paul Holmes, Bob Laxton, Tom Levitt, Judy Mallaber, Patrick McLoughlin, Dennis Skinner, Mark Todd
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| Districts
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- High Peak
- Derbyshire Dales
- South Derbyshire
- Erewash
- Amber Valley
- North East Derbyshire
- Chesterfield
- Bolsover
- Derby (Unitary)
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Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of England's most attractive hill and mountain scenery. 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. The county contains part of the National Forest, and borders on Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, 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.
Before 1998 the county included the city of Derby. Derby is now a unitary authority, but remains part of Derbyshire for ceremonial purposes.
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 in 1888 when the county councils were set up. The thin strip of Leicestershire between the exclave and Derbyshire, containing Overseal and Netherseal, is now considered part of Derbyshire.
Apart from this, some parishes in historic Derbyshire, including Dore, Norton and Totley, are now in the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
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
- Bakewell, Bamford, Baslow, Beeley, Belper, Birch Vale, Bolehill, Bolsover, Borrowash, Brassington, Bretby, Brimington, Burbage, Buxton
- Calver, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Chelmorton, Chesterfield, 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, Hayfield, Heage, Heanor, Hope
- Ilkeston
- Little Hucklow, Long Eaton
- Marston Montgomery, Marston on Dove, Matlock, Melbourne, Miller's Dale, Morley
- New Mills, Newhaven
- Over Haddon
- Parwich, Peak Forest
- Riber, Ripley
- Shipley, Shirebrook, Staveley, Stoney Middleton, Stretton, Sudbury, Swadlincote
- Tansley, Taxal, Thornhill, Tibshelf, Tideswell, Tunstead Milton
- Walton, Wardlow, Whaley Bridge, Whitwell, Wirksworth
- Youlgreave
Places of interest
See also
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