By Maxwell Craven If you drive from the Royal Derby Hospital to the A38, you might notice that, between the...
By Maxwell Craven If you drive from the Royal Derby Hospital to the A38, you might notice that, between the...
By Maxwell Craven One of the most delightful, sequestered and ancient parish churches in the county is that of St....
The present Walton Hall, built in the closing decade of the 18th century as a fairly substantial farmhouse, nowadays survives...
by Maxwell Craven Kirk Hallam was originally a small hamlet atop the ridge that overlooks the Nut Brook and the...
By Maxwell Craven Hoon is a strange little place, a civil parish created from the larger ecclesiastical parish of Marston-on-Dove...
Peter Perez Burdett is an important, enigmatic and tantalizing figure. He is best remembered as a cartographer, having surveyed and...
Grangefields lies in the northern part of the parish of Trusley and has a long history going back to the...
by Maxwell Craven Ockbrook Manor was a wonderful old house which one could only describe as ‘multi-period’ having, seemingly a...
by Maxwell Craven The publication in 2019 of Chesterfield Streets and Houses by Philip Riden and Chris Leteve throws much...
by Maxwell Craven A notable surge in prosperity in Derby during the Napoleonic wars and afterwards, led to the building...

Pupils from Ashbourne’s St Oswald’s primary have helped place a time capsule in Millennium Square to mark the transformation of...

From seasonal crafts and activities to outdoor trails and winter wildlife, there’s lots to keep young explorers busy this half term at the National Trust’s...

We know the kids have not long gone back to school but half term isn’t that far away, folks! So...

Derby Book Festival has announced the three shortlisted books for the Derby Children’s Picture Book Award 2026, selected by 22...

Wills & Probate Solicitor, Megan Lovell, has been promoted to Associate at the leading law firm, Timms, which has offices...
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