Amber Valley

Borough of Amber Valley
Borough
Shown within Derbyshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Ceremonial county	Derbyshire
Admin. HQ	Ripley
Government
• Type	Amber Valley Borough Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• MPs:	Nigel Mills, Pauline Latham, Patrick McLoughlin
Area
• Total	16.14 sq mi (41.81 km2)
Area rank	285th
Population (mid-2014 est.)
• Total	63,176
• Rank	Ranked 309th
• Density	3,900/sq mi (1,500/km2)
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST)	British Summer Time (UTC+1)
ONS code	17UB (ONS) E07000032 (GSS)
Ethnicity	97.8% White 0.9% S.Asian[1]
Website	ambervalley.gov.uk

Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in Derbyshire, England. It takes its name from the River Amber and covers a semi-rural area with a number of small towns whose economy was formerly based on coal mining and engineering. The parliamentary constituency of Amber Valley covers a similar area.

The village of Crich and the Amber Valley area were the setting for the ITV drama series Peak Practice.

Politics

Elections to the borough council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 45 seats on the council being elected at each election. The council has been controlled by the Conservative party since they gained control from the Labour party at the 2000 election except for a single year after the 2014 election. As of the 2015 election the council returned to Conservative party control and is composed of the following councillors:-^[2]

Towns of Amber Valley

Town Hall and council headquarters in Ripley

The offices of Amber Valley at Alfreton House in Alfreton.^[3]

• Alfreton

• Belper
• Heanor

• Ripley

Main villages of Amber Valley

• Ambergate
• Codnor
• Crich
• Denby
• Duffield
• Heage
• Holbrook
• Horsley
• Kedleston
• Kilburn
• Lea & Holloway
• Mackworth
• Milford
• Quarndon
• Somercotes
• Swanwick

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Alfreton, Belper, Heanor and Ripley Rural District and Belper Rural District. The district was granted borough status in 1988.

Crich Stand

Parishes

• Aldercar and Langley Mill, Alderwasley, Alfreton
• Belper
• Codnor, Crich
• Denby, Dethick, Lea and Holloway, Duffield
• Hazelwood, Heanor and Loscoe, Holbrook, Horsley, Horsley Woodhouse
• Idridgehay, Alton and Ashleyhay, Ironville
• Kedleston, Kilburn, Kirk Langley
• Mackworth, Mapperley
• Pentrich
• Quarndon
• Ravensdale Park, Riddings, Ripley
• Shipley, Shottle and Postern, Smalley, Somercotes, South Wingfield, Swanwick
• Turnditch and Windley
• Weston Underwood

See also

• List of places in Derbyshire

References

External links

• Amber Valley Borough Council website
• Amber Sound FM
• Visit Amber Valley
• Amber Valley Centre for Voluntary Services
• Amber Valley Info Web Site

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