| The European grant will be split between the High Peak and the Derbyshire Dales and it will include the market town of Bakewell. |
| The Derbyshire side are slight favourites to progress to a clash in the last four at Sheffield, due to their seventh place in the league table. |
| Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones. |
| Well-dressing festivals light up the Derbyshire dales all summer long, blazing from village to village like a beacon chain. |
| A promoter who booked them to play in Ripley, Derbyshire, suggested he change his name to Cliff Richard. |
| Hilary Mantel was born in 1952 and brought up in an unpicturesque village in Derbyshire, in the northwest of England. |
