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Derbyshire ( or ; abbreviated Derbys. or Derbs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire, containing the southern extremity of the Pennine range of hills which extend into the north of the county. The county contains part of the National Forest, and borders on Greater Manchester to the northwest, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the northeast, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the southeast, Staffordshire to the west and southwest and Cheshire also to the west. Kinder Scout, at 636 metres (2,087 ft), is the highest point in the county, whilst Trent Meadows, where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire, is its lowest point at 27 metres (89 ft). The River Derwent is the county's longest river at 66 miles (106 km), and runs roughly north to south through the county. In 2003 the Ordnance Survey placed Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms (near Swadlincote) as the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain.
The city of Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. The non-metropolitan county contains 30 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.
Derbyshire is a county in England.
It may also refer to:
- Derbyshire (surname)
- Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency), a defunct political division based on the county
- MV Derbyshire (built 1976), a British merchant ship
- Derbyshire Neck, a swelling in the neck
- Derbyshire CCC, an English 'county' first-class cricket club
- Derbyshire Redcap, an English breed of chicken from the county
- Derbyshire (European Parliament constituency)
Derbyshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each. The constituency of Derbyshire was one of them.
When it was created in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Belper, Bolsover, Derby North, Derby South, Derbyshire South East, Derbyshire West, High Peak, and Ilkeston. From 1984 until its abolition, it consisted of Amber Valley; Ashfield; Bolsover; Derby North; Derby South; Derbyshire West; Erewash; and High Peak.
Derbyshire is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001), British musician and composer
- Eileen Derbyshire (born 1930), British character actress
- Jonathan Derbyshire, British writer and author
- John Derbyshire (born 1945), British-born American author and conservative essayist
- John Derbyshire (swimmer) (1878–1938), English Olympian freestyle swimmer and water polo player
- Matt Derbyshire (born 1986), English footballer for Nottingham Forest and England U-21
- Paul Derbyshire (born 1986), Italian rugby union player
- Victoria Derbyshire (born 1968), British journalist and radio broadcaster
Usage examples of "derbyshire".
On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a self contained, insular community that distrusts the outside world.
I have taken some liberties with the geography of Derbyshire and with the city of Derby itself.
It had been worth every tedious minute of the three years of endless cramming for the law degree that had eased him on to the fast track, one of the first ever graduates to make it to the new accelerated promotion stream in the Derbyshire force.
George always made a careful note of bulletins from outside forces as well as other Derbyshire divisions, and he had paid particular attention to these two missing persons cases because they were just close enough that the children might fetch up on his patch.
Hawkin spoke for the first time, his voice unmistakably alien to the Derbyshire Peaks.
Within ten minutes, he was drawing up outside the house that Derbyshire Police decreed was appropriate for a married man of his rank.
From the kitchen and the back-bedroom windows, there was a view of Grin Low woods stretching along the ridge to the beginning of Axe Edge and the grim miles of moorland where Derbyshire blurred into Staffordshire and Cheshire.
POLICE COMB ISOLATED DALE Dogs in manhunt for missing girl By a Staff Reporter Police with tracker dogs were today hunting for a 13-year-old girl missing from her home in the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale since yesterday teatime.
The latest manhunt centres round Alison Carter, who vanished from the remote Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale on Wednesday.
But we would be very happy to share the fruits of our investigations with Derbyshire if this case drags on.
Scardale and thinking Derbyshire village life is milk-white sheep in a field full of sunshine.
He had one hand thrust in his pocket, the other holding a cigarette in a pose that would have passed for debonair in a West End theatre but only managed ridiculous in a Derbyshire farm kitchen.
Weather permitting, members of the public will today join Derbyshire police in further searches of the bleak moors and dales around Scardale.
If you know of any house where a teenage girl has appeared in the last few days, or if you know of anyone who has connections to Scardale or Buxton whose behaviour has been at all unusual, please contact Derbyshire Police on this number.
And thanks to a leaky CID and a sensation-hungry local paper, now Peter Crowther was frozen stiff in a Derbyshire sheep field.