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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:

Please visit: Portal:Derbyshire - our 'shop window' on selected aspects of the county of Derbyshire.
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11km
6.8miles
Winger-
worth
Ripley
Ilkeston
Swadlincote
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P  E  A  K  

D I S T R I C T
Matlock
Glossop
Buxton
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D E R B Y
9 Derby (Unitary Authority)
9 Derby (Unitary Authority)
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BOLSOVER
8 Bolsover district
8 Bolsover district
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CHESTER-
FIELD
7 Chesterfield borough
7 Chesterfield borough
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N.E.
DERBY-
SHIRE
6 North East Derbyshire district
6 North East Derbyshire district
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AMBER
VALLEY
5 Amber Valley borough
5 Amber Valley borough
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EREWASH
4 Erewash borough
4 Erewash borough
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SOUTH
DERBY-
SHIRE
3 South Derbyshire district
3 South Derbyshire district
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DERBY-
SHIRE
DALES
2 Derbyshire Dales district
2 Derbyshire Dales district
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HIGH
PEAK
1 High Peak borough
1 High Peak borough
Derbyshire Ceremonial County, showing the districts of the non-metropolitan county (grey lines). Derby unitary authority is shaded yellow.
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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)

Aims

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  • 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:

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  • 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:

Hot Articles

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19 edits Granville Colliery
15 edits Chesterfield F.C.
4 edits Long Eaton
4 edits Derby Gaol
4 edits Eyam
4 edits Jason Statham
3 edits Whitwell Old Hall
3 edits Richard Arkwright junior
3 edits List of Derby County F.C. managers
3 edits Ashbourne, Derbyshire

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 27 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot. (It is updated daily around 08:00 UTC)

Article alerts

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No Article alerts at this time.

Participants

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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.

Assessment and progress of articles

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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.

As of October 2025 we had assessed 100% of all articles flagged a Derbyshire project banner - that's 3,401 pages!
See chart below and Project talk page.
(Some article talk pages still require banners however)

Index · Statistics · Log


Ideas for new articles to be created

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

New (or expanded) article announcements

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

Article User
Smisby lock-up (new article) User: KJP1 November 2022
Column of the Temple of Poseidon at Chatsworth (new article) User: Noob1nMech Oct 2022
Preet Chandi (new article) User: Cbderbylib and others inc Victuallers January 2022
John Savage (died 1586) (new article) User: Grosseteste September 2021
List of public art in Derbyshire (much expanded) User: Douglal December 2020
Hundreds of Derbyshire (new) User: Douglal November 2020
Big expansion of History of Derbyshire User: Douglal November 2020
List of parks and open spaces in Derbyshire (new) User: Douglal November 2020
Little Longstone (new) User: Dave.Dunford September 2020
Scheduled monuments in Derbyshire (expanding to add NHLE refs & grid references, but have hit referencing template limits in user space so need to split) User: Dave.Dunford August 2020
Newton Grange, Derbyshire (new parish article) User: Dave.Dunford August 2020
70 new articles written this year about Buxton, Peak District & Derbyshire (see my user page for details) User: Douglal July 2020
Dream Cave
new (& DYK nomination)
User: Nick Moyes October 2019
Green Man, Ashbourne
(new & DYK nomination)
User:Ritchie333 October 2019
Derby St Luke's F.C.
(new)
User:Jellyman March 2018
Gotham Curve
(new)
User:DavidAHull Nov/Dec 2017
Cromford and High Peak Railway
(expanded)
User:DavidAHull November 2017
Hopton Incline
(expanded)
User:DavidAHull November 2017
List of windmills in Derbyshire
(New – from Redirect)
User:Mjroots May 2017
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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.

Articles

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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

Templates

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire/Userbox}} produces:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Derbyshire.

{{Project Derbyshire}} produces:

WikiProject iconDerbyshire High‑importance
WikiProject iconThe article on WikiProject Derbyshire is supported by the Derbyshire WikiProject, which is a collaborative effort to improve the quality and coverage of Derbyshire-related articles on Wikipedia.
HighThis article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Or copy and paste the following and fill in the relevant items;

{{Project Derbyshire|class=|importance=|ibox=|map=|stats=|photo=}}

For full use of this template see {{Project Derbyshire}}

{{Subst:Derbyshire welcome|Article name}} produces:

WikiProject Derbyshire Hello WikiProject Derbyshire. You have been invited to join WikiProject Derbyshire, a WikiProject dedicated to improving the Derbyshire-related articles on Wikipedia.
You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits within the scope of the project.
If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of project members.
You may also wish to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire/Userbox}} to your userpage.

Categories

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Below is a list of our main categories:
(The Categories are being systematically checked for project banner tagging of articles. The date is noted along side when done)

Things to do

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Useful tools

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Recent changes to WikiProject Derbyshire articles
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