The Derbyshire Set: Omnibus Edition 1: Regency Historical Romance (The Derbyshire Omnibus)

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Georgette Heyer's detective/romance novel The Toll-Gate is set in 1817 around a fictional toll-gate in Derbyshire.

The return of Hartington Stilton". Great British Life. 22 December 2014. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021 . Retrieved 18 April 2021. The Derbyshire Biological Records Centre was formerly based at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, but since 2011 has been managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. [25] Two of Englands 48 Local Nature Partnerships (LNP) also cover Derbyshire; these are the Peak District LNP and the Lowland Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire LNP. [26] Botany [ edit ] Anna Perkins needed her job, as a maid at Havisham Hall, home of the Earl of Stanningfield, to survive, but one small accident was enough to put everything at risk, including her heart. Spilling a tray of jellies all over a member of the aristocracy was definitely not what she had set out to do! The fact that the gentleman in question was kind to her, and was, in addition, quite the most handsome man that she had ever met, was more difficult to deal with than cruelty might have been.a b "Derbyshire: Total Population". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Great Britain Historical GIS Project. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012 . Retrieved 29 January 2008. The distribution and status of vascular plants in Derbyshire have been recorded over the last 120 years in a series of four major botanical works, each by different authors between 1889 and 2015, all entitled The Flora of Derbyshire. Plant recording is mainly undertaken locally by volunteers from the Derbyshire Flora Group, [22] :406 and by staff at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and the Peak District National Park. It also feels the planned location of a children’s play area close to Porter Lane is an unsafe spot. Derbyshire County Council says that Middleton Community Primary School and Anthony Gell School (a secondary) both have sufficient capacity to take on new pupils linked to the new development.

This UKSPF investment provides visible improvements that will help future-proof vital local facilities. We will be announcing the outcome of our most recent bidding rounds for our Parks and Play Areas and Village Halls and Community Venues schemes in due course.”Communities in the North East Derbyshire District are set to benefit from improvements to local parks and play areas under the first round of grants from the Council’s Shared Prosperity Fund programme. For the purposes of protecting and recording the county's most important habitats, Derbyshire has been split into two regions, each with its own Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP), based around National Character Areas. The Peak District BAP includes all of Derbyshire's uplands of the Dark Peak, South-West Peak and White Peak, including an area of limestone beyond the national park boundary. [23] The remaining areas are monitored and recorded in the Lowland Derbyshire Biodiversity Action Plan, which subdivides the landscape into eight smaller Action Areas. [24] Smith, Roly (1999). Towns & Villages of Britain: Derbyshire. Cheshire: Sigma Press. ISBN 1-85058-622-5. Landscape Character". Derbyshire County Council. 2013. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015 . Retrieved 17 August 2015.

The town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire is known for its Royal Shrovetide Football, described as a "medieval football game", played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.

Jones, Caroline (9 June 2017). "The full General Election 2017 results for Derby and Derbyshire". Derby Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017 . Retrieved 9 June 2017. There are several towns in the county, with Derby the largest and most populous. At the time of the 2011 census, a population of 770,600 lived in the county with 248,752 (32%) living in Derby. The table below shows all towns with over 10,000 inhabitants. The results of the 2019 United Kingdom general election in Derbyshire (including the city of Derby) are as follows: There was just one impediment to their romance..... one very large impediment... even more significant than the difference in their stations... UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Old Glossop 2011 Census Ward (1170212704)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 10 March 2018.