About Derbyshire (abb. Derbys):
Derbyshire, East Midlands, contains a substantial part of the Peak District National Park, National Forest and the Pennines hills and mountains. Highest point is Kinder Scout, 636 m. (2088 ft). The county borders on Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire.
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.
Derbyshire was traditionally divided into six hundreds (county divisions): Appletree, High Peak, Morleyston and Litchurch, Repton and Gresley, Scarsdale, Wirksworth.
Main organisational changes in the last two centuries:
- The area surrounding Measham and Donisthorpe was incorporated into Leicestershire by the Local Government Act 1888.
- The thin strip of Leicestershire containing Overseal and Netherseal is now considered part of Derbyshire.
- An area, including the parishes of Stapenhill and Winshill, part the borough of Burton upon Trent was incorporated into Staffordshire.
- Some parishes in historic Derbyshire, including Dore, Norton and Totley, are now in the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire
- 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.
- Tintwistle Rural District was transferred into Derbyshire from Cheshire.
Derbyshire now has a two-tier local government, with a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils
List of the towns 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, Youlgreave
