Derbyshire. Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.
It includes much of the Peak District National Park and the southern edge of the Pennine range of hills. It covers part of the National Forest and borders Greater Manchester to the north-west, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the north-east, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the west and south-west, and Cheshire to the west.
Kinder Scout, at 636 metres, is the highest point and Trent Meadows, where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire, the lowest at 27 metres. The River Derwent is the longest river at 66 mi, running north-south.
In 2003 the Ordnance Survey named Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms near Swadlincote as Britain's furthest point from the sea. Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county.
The non-metropolitan county has 30 towns of 10,000-100,000 inhabitants, but much sparsely populated farming upland. The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited, probably briefly, by humans 200,000 years ago during the Aveley interglacial, as shown by a Middle Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe found near Hopton. Further occupation came with the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age. when Mesolithic hunter-gatherers roamed the hilly tundra.Evidence of these nomadic tribes has been found in limestone caves located o
It includes much of the Peak District National Park and the southern edge of the Pennine range of hills. It covers part of the National Forest and borders Greater Manchester to the north-west, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the north-east, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the west and south-west, and Cheshire to the west.
Kinder Scout, at 636 metres, is the highest point and Trent Meadows, where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire, the lowest at 27 metres. The River Derwent is the longest river at 66 mi, running north-south.
In 2003 the Ordnance Survey named Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms near Swadlincote as Britain's furthest point from the sea. Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county.
The non-metropolitan county has 30 towns of 10,000-100,000 inhabitants, but much sparsely populated farming upland. The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited, probably briefly, by humans 200,000 years ago during the Aveley interglacial, as shown by a Middle Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe found near Hopton. Further occupation came with the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age. when Mesolithic hunter-gatherers roamed the hilly tundra.Evidence of these nomadic tribes has been found in limestone caves located o
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