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February
Craft Fair
Shrovetide Football

March
Calke Abbey Walk 2010
Hearts Walk

April
BLUEBELL FORTNIGHT
Chesterfield Easter Market
Crooked Spire Church Open Day
GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY

May
'Crooked Spire' Church Open Day
AAA Adventure Challenge
Acoustic Festival of Britain
Bakewell Show 2010
Calke Abbey Craft Show
Chatsworth Horse Trials
Chesterfield May Day Market
Chesterfield Spring Bank Holiday Market
Derbyshire County Show
Folk Weekend
Garland Day
SPRING CRAFT FAIR

June
Belper Steam & Vintage Event
Chesterfield Day of Dance
Chesterfield Pools Brook Fireworks
Derby Cathedral Annual Bellringer’s Open Day
Download Donington Festival
RENISHAW'S WARTIME WEEKEND
White Peak Challenge Bike Ride

July
'Crooked Spire' Church Open Day
Buxton International Arts Festival
Chesterfield Medieval Market
Lancashire & Yorkshire Day
Rosliston Open Gardens Weekend

August
'Crooked Spire' Church Open Day
Ashbourne Show
Chesterfield August Bank Holiday Market
Chesterfield Evening Fireworks
GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY
Plague Sunday Service
Plant Fair
The Dronfield Charity Music Festival
Transport Extravagana

September
Catton Park Large Model Airshow
Chatsworth Country Fair
Chesterfield 800th Anniversary Charter Fair
Chesterfield Well Dressing in the Making
Chesterfield Well Dressings
Hartington Food and Folk Festival

October
British Heart Bike Ride Dark Peak Challenge

November
Chesterfield Bonfire and Fireworks Display
Dovedale Dash
High Peak Trail Winter Challenge Hike
Switch-on of Chesterfield Christmas Lights

December
A Victorian Christmas at Eyam Hall
Bonnie Prince Charlie Commemoration
Magical Christmas fun at Gulliver’s Kingdom
Santa Special & Christmas Market

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Principal Towns: Derby, Chesterfield, Ripley, Matlock, Bakewell, Ashbourne

Derbyshire is situated in the north midlands of England, bordered in the north-west by Cheshire , in the north by Yorkshire, in the east by Nottinghamshire , in the south by Leicestershire , in the west by Staffordshire . It measures about 52 miles from north to south, and for most of that length is only about 20 miles from east to west, in an area of approximately 2631 sq km (1016 sq miles).

Derby is by far the largest town in the county. Other towns of some importance are Alfreton , Ashbourne , Bakewell , Belper , Buxton , Chesterfield , Glossop, Heanor, Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Matlock .

Derbyshire is a brilliant place to live, work, play and visit. Its towns, villages, hills, dales and rivers, offer beautiful scenery, and a rich variety of customs that date back from time immemorial. In Derbyshire 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 caters for nearly every kind of sport, from rock climbing and pot holing to fly fishing and canoeing on waters surrounded by beautiful scenery.

The towns and villages are often quite isolated and built of the abundant native stone. Here also, there are many more stone built reminders of the ancient past, including the many burial mounds or `lows` which crown so many hills in Derbyshire. Prehistoric monuments also remain such as the magnificent Arbor Low stone circle and henge near Parsley Hay and the Nine Ladies stone circle on Stanton Moor.

The hedgerows and arable fields which typify the Midlands, once you have passed Ashbourne, give way to mile after mile of drystone walls criss-crossing stoney pastures, where pastoral farming of sheep and cattle predominates.

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. It covers 555 square miles of the north of the county, taking in the limestone plateau and dales of the White Peak, and the brooding gritstone moors and edges of the Dark Peak. Over 22 million day visits are made to the Peak District National Park every year, making it the second-most visited National Park in the world.

Over the years this region has been immortalized on film in numerous movies and TV dramas, including, Lady Jane Grey , Women in Love, The Virgin and the Gypsy, The Prince and the Pauper and Moll Flanders. The ever popular British TV Series, Peak Practice, BBC's Pride and Prejudice and Frank Zeffirelli's Jane Ayre have had an immense impact on the area, and visitors come from far and wide to see locations used during filming.

The Derwent Valley Mills region is now a World Heritage Site, leading to worldwide recognition of the unique role this area, which snakes down the Derwent Valley from Matlock Bath to Derby, played in shaping the factory system, the industrial revolution and modern society. The site includes a series of mill complexes, river weirs, mill settlements and an historic transport network.

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