Derbyshire - Economy, Settlements, Places of interest, Emblems

pop (2001e) 734 600; area 2631 km²/1016 sq mi. County of C England, UK; rises to The Peak at 636 m/2086 ft; drained by Derwent, Dove, Wye, and Trent Rivers; county town, Matlock; chief towns include Derby (new unitary authority from 1997), Chesterfield, Glossop; the Derwent Valley Mills is a world heritage site; sheep and dairy farming, coal, textiles, iron smelting, engineering.

In 1974 the former area of Tintwistle Rural District was incorporated into the new non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire having previously been part of the administrative county of Cheshire.

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added	Agriculture	Industry	Services
1995	9,341	125	4,452	4,762
2000	11,558	98	4,945	6,515
2003	13,733	95	5,118	8,520

^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding ^ includes hunting and forestry ^ includes energy and construction ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

Settlements

This is a list of the towns in Derbyshire; Bakewell, Bamford, Baslow, Beeley, Belper, Birch Vale, Bolehill, Bolsover, Borrowash, Brassington, Bretby, Brimington, Burbage, Buxton Calver, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Chelmorton, Chesterfield, Chinley, Clay Cross, Clowne, Cressbrook, Creswell, Cromford, Crowden, Curbar Derby, Dronfield, Duffield Earl Sterndale, Eckington, Edale, Edensor, Eyam Fernilee Gamesley, Glossop, Great Hucklow Hadfield, Hartington, Hathersage, Hatton, Hayfield, Heage, Heanor, Hope Ilkeston Little Hucklow, Long Eaton, Littleover Marston Montgomery, Marston on Dove, Matlock, Melbourne, Miller's Dale, Morley New Mills, Newhaven Over Haddon,Osmaston Parwich, Peak Forest, Pinxton Riber, Ripley Sandiacre, Shipley, Shirebrook, Stainsby, Staveley, Stoney Middleton, Stretton, Sudbury, Swadlincote Tansley, Taxal, Thornhill, Tibshelf, Tideswell, Tunstead Milton Walton, Wardlow, Westhouses, Whaley Bridge, Whitwell, Wingerworth, Wirksworth, Woolley Moor Youlgreave

Places of interest

Alfreton Hall Alsop Hall Arbor Low — English Heritage Barlborough Hall Bradbourne Hall Bradley Hall Bretby Hall, see also Earls of Chesterfield Buxton Hall Buxton Museum & see also Dukes of Devonshire Coxbench Hall Crooked Spire Cromford and High Peak Railway Derwent Reservoir Derwent Valley Mills — a World Heritage Site Ednaston Manor Eyam Hall Fenney Bentley Old Hall Flagg Hall Glossop Hall Great Longstone Hall Haddon Hall Hardwick Hall Hartington Hall Heage Windmill Heights of Abraham Hob Hurst's House — English Heritage Howden Reservoir Ilam Hall Kedleston Hall Kinder Scout Ladybower Reservoir Longdendale Chain of reservoirs Longdendale Trail, a long distance footpath Longford Hall Mam Tor Millennium Bridge, New Mills National Tramway Museum, Crich National Stone Centre, Wirksworth Nine Ladies Stone Circle — English Heritage Norbury Hall Ogston Reservoir Parwich Hall Peveril Castle Renishaw Hall Riber Castle Speedwell Cavern Sudbury Hall — National Trust Sutton Scarsdale Hall — English Heritage The Torrs, New Mills Thornbridge Hall Tissington Hall Well dressing — an ancient custom Wingfield Manor — English Heritage

Emblems

As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Jacob's Ladder as the county flower.