Derbyshire
| Derbyshire | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area | Ranked 21st 2,625 km² Ranked 20th 2,547 km² |
| Admin HQ: | Matlock |
| GB-DBY | |
| ONS code: | 17 |
| NUTS 3: | UKF12/13 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. | Ranked 20th 962,502 367 / km² Ranked 11th 739,253 |
| Ethnicity: | 96.0% White 2.3% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Derbyshire County Council http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Labour |
| Members of Parliament | |
| Harry Barnes, Margaret Beckett, Liz Blackman, Paul Holmes, Bob Laxton, Tom Levitt, Judy Mallaber, Patrick McLoughlin, Dennis Skinner, Mark Todd | |
| Districts | |
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It has a two-tier local government, with a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils. 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.
Before 1998 the county included the city of Derby. Derby is now a unitary authority, but remains part of Derbyshire for ceremonial purposes.
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2 Towns and villages 3 Places of interest |
Derbyshire was traditionally divided into six hundredss, namely Appletree, High Peak, Morleyston and Litchurch, Repton and Gresley, Scarsdale, Wirksworth. These were based on the seven earlier wapentakes recorded in the Domesday Book, with the merging of Repton and Gresley wapentakes.
Derbyshire had a detached part in north-western Leicestershire, surrounding Measham and Donisthorpe. This escaped regularisation in 1844, and was incoprorated into Leicestershire in 1888 when the county councils were set up. The thin strip of Leicestershire between the exclave and Derbyshire, containing Overseal and Netherseal, is now considered part of Derbyshire.
Apart from this, some parishes in historic Derbyshire, including Dore, Norton and Totley, are now in the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
History
Towns and villages
Places of interest