Derby’s cathedral began as a parish church and still has that feel, tucked along Iron Gate in the city centre. Its west tower, finished around 1530, stands 212 feet — reckoned the second-tallest medieval church tower in England after Boston Stump. Inside are Robert Bakewell’s early-18th-century wrought-iron screen, as fine as lace, and the tomb of Bess of Hardwick, the great Elizabethan builder. Derby station is a little over a kilometre to the south-east.
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