Villages & towns in DerbyshireDerbyshire, England

The gritstone 'plague village' that quarantined itself in 1665-66, its cottages still marked with the names of the dead.

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The cradle of the factory system, where Richard Arkwright built the world's first water-powered cotton mill in 1771.

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Elegant spa town of Georgian crescents and a domed Opera House, England's highest market town, built on its warm mineral spring.

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Handsome Georgian market town, gateway to Dovedale and home of the anarchic Royal Shrovetide Football played through its streets.

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The Peak District's only true market town, straddling the Wye with a medieval bridge and the shops that gave the Bakewell pudding its name.

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Hope Valley village ringed by four show caves and the ruined Peveril Castle, the only place Blue John stone is mined.

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The southern start of the Pennine Way, tucked in a green valley below the brooding plateau of Kinder Scout.

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Dark Peak village below Stanage Edge, with Little John's reputed grave and Charlotte Bronte connections that fed Jane Eyre.

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Inland Victorian spa resort in the Derwent gorge, all amusement arcades, cable cars and autumn illuminations below wooded cliffs.

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Former capital of Anglo-Saxon Mercia, its church hiding a rare 8th-century crypt where Mercian kings were buried.

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Large upland village built on wool and lead, its 14th-century church so grand it is called the 'Cathedral of the Peak'.

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Chocolate-box limestone village on the River Wye, famous for its packhorse Sheepwash Bridge and the medieval tradition of well dressing.

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A model estate village of mismatched styles, rebuilt by the 6th Duke of Devonshire in 1839 within Chatsworth Park.

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Compact White Peak village around a green with a duck pond, medieval cross and bull ring, one of the prettiest in the Peak.

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Handsome White Peak village at the head of Dovedale, long the home of Derbyshire cheese-making with a duck pond and market square.

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Attractive Georgian market town in south Derbyshire, home to Melbourne Hall and a great Norman parish church.

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Picture-book estate village around a Jacobean hall, celebrated for its six ancient wells dressed with flower petals each Ascension.

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Old lead-mining market town of steep alleys and grand stone houses, revived as an arts destination on the edge of the dales.

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Gritstone village on the flank of Stanton Moor, close to the Nine Ladies stone circle and the carved caves of Rowtor Rocks.

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Steep former lead-mining village above the Derwent, its stepped market cross the focus of an eccentric hen-racing tradition.

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Pretty gritstone village at the foot of Kinder Scout, starting point of the 1932 Mass Trespass that won the right to roam.

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Quiet White Peak village at the head of Lathkill Dale, gathered around a green with the stump of its old market cross.

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Village crammed into a limestone dale, with a rare octagonal church and, allegedly, Britain's only Grade II listed fish and chip shop.

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Long straggling limestone village above Bradford Dale, known for its elaborate well dressings and the tall-towered All Saints church.

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Hope Valley village on the Derwent below Bamford Edge, gateway to the great dam-walls of the Upper Derwent reservoirs.

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Small village perched above Lathkill Dale, its cottages looking down one of the loveliest and clearest limestone rivers in England.

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