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The Derby Guide - Guide to the City of Derby in Derbyshire
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Welcome to Derby - A guide to the City of Derby in Derbyshire. This Derby Guide aims to provide information on many aspects of Derby life including accommodation in Derby, Derby hotels, Derby business, attractions in Derby, local events, Derby people, recreation, sport, Derby university life and Derby photographs.
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Derby is the UK's most central city benefiting from the best of both worlds - a great cultural base situated in the East Midlands on the edge of the Peak District National park.
Derby is famous for setting in motion Britain's Industrial Revolution with some of the countrys first factories and spinning mills.
Derby is equally famous for later factories of Rolls Royce, Royal Crown Derby and Railway engineering. The thriving City centre boasts an excellent range of entertainment venues, attractions, pubs, restaurants, parks and open spaces. Read more
Derby is at the very centre of Derbyshire with Derbyshire's
bustling market towns, villages, hills, dales and rivers, offering majestic scenery,
and a rich variety of customs that date back from time immemorial. Many visitors to Derbyshire and the Peak District come not only to enjoy the varied and beautiful landscape, but also to experience a blend of heritage, history and family attractions hard to find elsewhere.
In Derbyshire and the Peak District you find large country houses, like Chatsworth,
Kedleston and Haddon, towns and villages associated with famous
people or rare minerals, and crystal clear rivers and streams
running through its valleys and dales.
Derbyshire and the Peak District caters for nearly every kind of sport, from rock
climbing and pot holing to fly fishing and canoeing on waters
surrounded by beautiful scenery. Derbyshire today is perhaps best known for the Peak District
National Park, the first to be designated in Britain, in 1951, in
recognition of its outstanding and largely unspoilt scenery.
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| Derby & Derbyshire Accommodation |
Why not book yourself a short holiday, escape the pressures of everyday life and spend some time recharging your batteries in Derby , Derbyshire or the Peak District. For the visitor, a wide range of accommodation is available in Derby, from 5 star hotels to excellent and friendly Guest Houses. See Derby Accommodation for availability in Derby City Centre.
For accommodation throughout Derbyshire and the Peak District See Derbyshire & Peak District Accommodation
Wherever you choose to stay you can be sure of a warm welcome and great service.
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| Derby & Derbyshire Attractions |
Derby has much to attract the visitor with its excellent shopping facilities, the new Westfield Ce ntre having been completed nearly a year ago and attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from both within asnd outside the county. The Cathedral Quarter is also a popular area with an upmarket mix of quality, independent niche retailers, cafes, restaurants and bars.
Derby has musuems, galleries and has a growing reputation on the national cultural scene. The Derby Art Gallery contains a brilliant collection of paintings by the Derby born Joseph Wright. The Derby Quad opposite Derby Council House is due to be completed in mid 2008 and will provide Derby with a building where audiences and users can participate and engage in a variety of art forms. The new cinema in the Westfield Centre will open in Summer 2008 and will have
12 screens, providing 2,600 seats.
Work on Derby’s £95m
Riverlights complex is due to start
in August 2007. Riverlights includes the new bus
station, 150 apartments, and up to
160,000 sq ft of commercial leisure space with
hotels, shops, bars and restaurants. The new bus
station is the first on the agenda, due to
be open late 2008 and the entire project is
due to be completed by May 2009. More information at Derby Cityscape
For attractions in Derby from parks to museums see Derby Attractions
For Places to visit in Derbyshire and the Peak District See Derbyshire and Peak District Attractions
Many visitors both English and from abroad come to the Derbyshire Peak District to visit the locations of the many costume dramas, block busters and other films made in the region. More recently Chatsworth House was used for all the exterior Pemberley sequences and some of the interior including the sculpture gallery, in the 2005 filming of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley as Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet and
Matthew Macfadyen as Fitzwilliam Darcy. See Pride & Prejudice Connection.
See also the Jane Eyre connection with the region with locations where the BBC actually filmed the new four part series staring Ruth Wilson as Jane Eyre and Toby Stephens as Edward Rochester at Jane Eyre Connection
In March 2008 sees the arrival at the cinema of another period drama and potential blockbuster movie called The Other Boleyn Girl. The film is partly set in the Derbyshire Peak District with
scenes shot in and around North Lees Hall at Hathersage, Haddon Hall, Cavedale, and Dovedale.
The film stars Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn and Natalie Portman as her ill-fated sister Anne.
A new movie called 'The Duchess' was filmed at Chatsworth House and Kedleston Hall in autumn 2007 and due for release in the autumn of 2008. It was directed by Saul Dibb and starred Keira Knightley as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. See more on Georgiana at Georgiana Cavendish
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| Derby Communities |
Derby is split into 17 wards with some wards containing several areas of the city. The newest area is Heatherton Village which certainly is not a village, but merely the name given to a development which was built in the 1990s, comprising of typical modern estate housing and shops. It is basically an extension of Littleover sharing many common facilities. Oakwood was built mainly in the 1980s and 1990s and is one of the largest new housing estates in Europe bordering the suburb of Chaddesden
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| Derby & Derbyshire Events 2008 |
Dates for the 2008 Calendar
17th - 19th May Etwall Well Dressing
10th June - 6th July - Ashbourne Festival
9th - 27th July Buxton Festival
6th and 7th August 2008 - Bakewell Show
29th - 31st August -
Chatsworth Country Fair
18th - 19th October - The Great Peak District Fair at Buxton
For various other events throughout Derby , Derbyshire and the Peak District National Park see the Events Calendar
See ArtsDerbyshire for Arts events and information in Derbyshire
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