Welcome to the Derbyshire WikiProject.
...on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

We are a small user group, keen to improve and expand Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Derbyshire, England.

This area includes:

• the districts of Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire and South Derbyshire; (see interactive map)
• the City of Derby;
• the Suburbs of Derby (Allenton, Allestree, Alvaston, Boulton, Chaddesden, Chellaston, Darley Abbey, Derwent, Heatherton Village, Litchurch, Little Chester, Littleover, Mackworth, Markeaton, Mickleover, Normanton, Oakwood, Osmaston, Pear Tree, Rose Hill, Shelton Lock, Sinfin, Spondon, Sunny Hill and Wilmorton);
• "Special Articles" such as University of Derby, Derbyshire County Cricket Club and Derby County F.C.
• A large proportion of the Peak District.
• Click the interactive District map below to zoom in to any part of Derbyshire.

Please visit: Portal:Derbyshire - our 'shop window' on selected aspects of the county of Derbyshire.

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Derbyshire Ceremonial County, showing the districts of the non-metropolitan county (grey lines). Derby unitary authority is shaded yellow.
Click link to zoom in to use detailed interactive map.

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High Peak borough

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Derbyshire Dales district

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South Derbyshire district

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Erewash borough

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Amber Valley borough

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North East Derbyshire district

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Chesterfield borough

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Bolsover district

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Derby (Unitary Authority)

• To improve all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Derbyshire, including its history, geography, ecology, people, buildings and notable businesses,
• To allocate all relevant articles to the Category:Derbyshire or one of its subcategories, and assessed for both importance and quality.
• Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics,
• Continue to get several Did You Know?s on the Main Page. (Four authors so far!)

Specific targets:

• Bring Peak District and Derbyshire up to featured article standard (currently Good article and C-class, respectively, as at 2019),
• Bring Derby up to good article standard (currently C-class as at 2019),
• Maintain and update Portal:Derbyshire

• For a list of the most viewed pages last month that are relevant to this Project, click here
• For a list of the most edited articles over the last seven days, see below:

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 25 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot. (It is updated daily around 08:00 UTC)

Today's featured articles

• 01 Dec 2024 – Benty Grange helmet (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

You don't need to be from Derbyshire to help with this WikiProject! We welcome all editors with good layout and prose skills, and users who can add content or fix issues with articles. You don't even need to sign up (!), but it would be lovely to hear from you and what your interests are. So, just sign up if you want to share and tell us about your interest in this county.

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Please feel free to add yourself at the end of this list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Click Here to edit list. "WikiProject Derbyshire Members" User name Location - Date joined Interests and specialist knowledge Any relevant printed sources available Victuallers* (talk) HospitalHistory Matlock November 2017 Peak District and bus/trains Visits to Derby Visits to Belper WhaleyTim* (talk) Whaley Bridge Industrial & Transport History, Goyt Valley & Surrounding Areas MightyWarrior* (talk) Chevin* (talk) Near the hill which is my nom de plume History of Derwent Valley. Railway history Private and public library Dave Dunford* (talk) Birch Vale Walking, history, architecture, natural history. A few books e.g. Derbyshire Pevsner, Flora of Derbyshire, some Derbyshire Ornithological Society annual reports Rachel Pearce* (talk) Darley Dale A few local books Jellyman* (talk) Derby Anything Derby-related, also history, geography, sport, railways, buildings Highfields * (talk Matlock - Nov 08 My Local Area (Schools, Matlock in general etc.), The Peak District, Images (Peak District, Matlock, Derbyshire...) Rcsprinter123* High Peak - December 2010 Buses Jamesinderbyshire* Quarndon - June 2009 History, politics, archaeology, transport, economy My own library + visits to Scarthin Bookshop in Cromford Cebderby* Sunny Hill - May 2012 Local area TenthEagle* Allestree - April 2006 Local History, Ships, The Falklands War, Bridges. My own planet sized Brain (planet smartie) Clem Rutter* Rochester Wikipedia:GLAM, Silk, Cotton, Industrial Archeology, Glossop to Belper Amazon One-click Nick Moyes* Derby - October 2015 Derbyshire Natural History and Geology, County Naturalists, Biodiversity Action Plans, Biological Recording, Hill-walking and Climbing, Museums, Expert on the Flora of Derbyshire. All editions of The Flora of Derbyshire (1889–2015); can create maps on GIS/DMAP. PaleCloudedWhite October 2015 Settlements, general geography Oculi Nov 2015 Gog the Mild June 2018 History, hill-walking, copy editing Douglal* Buxton - March 2020 Buxton, Peak District, Long distance walking trails, Heritage sites AcesAndEights8 Long Eaton /- March 2021 Interested in East/South Derbyshire. Add your Name here Location / Join Up date Tell us your interests or specialist knowledge Any access to unusual information sources?

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Derbyshire supported articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 2–3 days, but they can be updated manually here.

You may wish to use this chart to identify articles to improve. You can have the greatest impact by focussing on short (Stub) articles of the highest importance, as these are often the easiest to improve, whilst likely to be of interest to others. Alternatively, you could find Top priority articles and see how you could enhance these. Any article appearing in the 'Unassessed' row would benefit from a quality and importance rating if you feel confident to do this.

Index · Statistics · Log

Derbyshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA	1	1	5	3				10
FL				2				2
GA	2		3	6				11
B	3	14	31	35			8	91
C	7	49	133	188			20	397
Start		24	328	772			84	1,208
Stub		2	8	729			25	764
List		6	26	327			1	360
Category					183	26		209
File					2			2
Portal					3			3
Project					2			2
Template					28			28
NA		1	1	24	12			38
Other					1			1
Assessed	13	97	535	2,086	231	26	138	3,126
Unassessed							3	3
Total	13	97	535	2,086	231	26	141	3,129
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 12,507			Ω = 5.04

Please add suggestions for new articles below...
...or go research and create some of them!

•  Done Chapel of St Mary on the Bridge (in Derby - associated with Derby Cathedral)
•  Done Beeley Moor (SK290700)
• East Moor (SK290700)
• Brampton East Moor
•  Done Gibbet Moor (SK270760)
• Harewood Moor (SK300670)
• Richard Curzon (notable? current occupant of Kedleston Hall) [1] [2]
• Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale [3]
• Appletree (hundred)
• High Peak (hundred)
• Morleston and Litchurch (hundred)
• Repton and Gresley (hundred)
• Scarsdale (hundred)
• Vic Hallam
• Whittington Moor
• Wirksworth (hundred)
• Innumerable Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), listed in red at List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire. (Source: Natural England )

If you have created or significantly enhanced any Derbyshire article, please add it to the table below:

Derwent Valley Mills

Peak District

Melbourne Castle

Peveril Castle

Snake Pass

Benty Grange helmet

Midland Railway War Memorial

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Location of FAs and GAs within Derbyshire

For all featured content on Wikipedia, see Portal:Featured content

Some of the content supported by WikiProject Derbyshire has reached good article (GA), or even featured article (FA) and featured list (FL) status, meaning they are amongst the best content on Wikipedia. They are listed below.

Article	Current status	Nomination	Date promoted
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump	Featured Article	FAC	13 June 2007
Derwent Valley Mills	Good Article	GAC	15 June 2009
Peak District	Good Article	GAC	2 July 2009
Rolls-Royce Merlin	Featured Article	FAC	6 October 2009
Tony Benn	Good Article	GAC	6 May 2010
Hugh Bardulf	Good Article	GAC	13 August 2010
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield	Featured Article	FAC	12 December 2010
List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the English Midlands	Featured List	FLC	30 December 2010
Peveril Castle	Featured Article	FAC	4 January 2011
Chris Smith (footballer, born 1981)	Good Article	GAC	26 August 2011
Chris Beardsley	Good Article	GAC	27 September 2011
John Cotton (minister)	Good Article	GAC	22 March 2013
Melbourne Castle	Featured Article	FAC	19 November 2013
Snake Pass	Good Article	GAC	9 April 2015
List of Derbyshire County Cricket Club grounds	Featured List	FLC	7 August 2015
Peter Matthews (artist)	Good Article	GAC	23 April 2018
Benty Grange helmet	Featured Article	FAC	28 December 2018
Coterel gang	Featured Article	FAC	17 August 2019

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