Belper is a town and
civil parish
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in the
local government district of
Amber Valley in
Derbyshire
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, England, located about north of
Derby
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on the
River Derwent. As well as Belper itself, the parish also includes the village of
Milford and the hamlets of
Bargate, Blackbrook and Makeney. As of the
2011 Census, the parish had a population of 21,823. Originally a centre for the nail-making industry since Medieval times, Belper expanded during the early
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going f ...
to become one of the first
mill town
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Italy
* '' Crespi d'Adda'', UNESCO World ...
s with the establishment of several
textile mills; as such, it forms part of the
Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site
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.
History
At the time of the
Norman occupation, Belper was part of the land centred on
Duffield held by the family of
Henry de Ferrers. The
Domesday Book
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of 1086 records a manor of "Bradley" which is thought to have stood in an area of town now known as the Coppice. At that time it was probably within the
Forest of East Derbyshire which covered the whole of the county east of the
Derwent. It was possibly appropriated by
William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby at some time after it was disafforested in 1225 and became part of
Duffield Frith.
The town's name is thought to be a corruption of ''Beaurepaire'' – meaning beautiful retreat – the name given to a hunting lodge, the first record of which being in a charter of 1231. This would have been the property of
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster who died in 1296, the record of his estate mentioning "a capital mansion". The chapel built at that time still exists. Originally consecrated in 1250 as the Chapel of St Thomas, it was rededicated to St John during the reign of
King Henry VIII
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. St John's Chapel is still in use today and is thought to be the oldest building still standing in Belper.
The coal deposits of Derbyshire are frequently associated with
ironstone within the clay substrate. Initially obtained from surface workings, it would later have been mined in shallow bell pits. It is thought that this was important for the de Ferrers family, who were ironmasters in Normandy. By the reign of
Henry VIII Belper had grown to a substantial size. It is recorded that in 1609 fifty-one people died of
plague
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Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
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* An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
* A pandemic caused by such a disease
* A swarm of pes ...
. However, in a Parliamentary Commissioners' report of 1650 regarding Duffield and its chapelries, Belper is described as "a hamlet appertaining to Duffield".
From at least the 13th century there were forges in the Belper and Duffield areas and iron-working became a major source of income, particularly nail making. By the end of the 18th century there were around 500 workshops in the town supplying nails to the newly built
textile mills. The workshops were eventually superseded by machinery during the 19th century. Some of the nail-makers' houses are still in existence and form part of local tours of the town.
The
industrialist
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Jedediah Strutt, a partner of
Richard Arkwright
Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as ...
, built a water-powered cotton mill in Belper in the late 18th century: the second in the world at the time. With the expansion of the textile industry Belper became one of the first
mill town
A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles. Europe
Italy
* '' Crespi d'Adda'', UNESCO World ...
s. In 1784 Strutt built the
North Mill and, across the road, the West Mill. In 1803 the North Mill was burnt down and replaced by a new structure designed to be fireproof. Further extensions followed, culminating in the East Mill in 1913 – a present-day Belper landmark. Although no longer used to manufacture textiles the mill still derives electricity from the river, using turbine-driven generators.
Strutt had previously patented his "Derby Rib" for stockings, and the plentiful supply of cotton encouraged the trade of
framework knitting
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which had been carried on in the town and surrounding villages since the middle of the previous century. Mechanisation arrived about 1850, but by that time the fashion for stockings for men was disappearing. However elaborately patterned stockings, for ladies especially, were coming into vogue, and the output of the Belper "cheveners" was much in demand.
The construction of the
North Midland Railway in 1840 brought further prosperity. Belper was the first place in the
UK to get gas lighting, at a works erected by the Strutts at
Milford. Demand was such that in 1850, the Belper Gas and Coke Company was formed, with a works in the present Goods Road. Electricity followed in 1922 from the Derby and Nottingham Electrical Power Company's works at
Spondon. The first telephones came in 1895 from the National Telephone Company. The end of the century also brought the motor car, CH218, owned by Mr. James Bakewell of The Elms being possibly the first.
Belper remained a textile and hosiery centre into the 20th century. Meanwhile, other companies were developing: iron founding led to Park Foundry becoming a leader in the solid-fuel central-heating market; Adshead and Ratcliffe had developed Arbolite putty for iron-framed windows; Dalton and Company, which had been producing lubricating oils, developed ways of recovering used engine oil proving useful during the
Second World War
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. In 1938, A. B. Williamson had developed a substance for conditioning silk stockings; the introduction of nylon stockings after the Second World War seemed to make it redundant, but mechanics and fitters had discovered its usefulness in cleaning hands and it is still marketed by Deb Group as
Swarfega
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It is a gelatinous, thixotropic substance, ...
.
Government
Before 1983 the town gave its name to the
Belper constituency, which from 1945 to 1970 was the seat of
George Brown, the deputy leader of the Labour Party.
Administratively, Belper town council manages first tier local government services,
Amber Valley Borough and
Derbyshire County councils providing successively higher level services.
Geography
Belper is north of
Derby
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and is in the valley of the
River Derwent. The town had a population of 20,548 living in 8,790 households according to the
2001 census.
As well as Belper itself, the civil parish also includes the communities and hamlets of:
:*
Bargate
:*
Belper Lane End
:* Blackbrook
:* Broadholm
:* Far Laund
:* Farnah Green
:* Makeney
:*
Milford
:* Mount Pleasant
:* Openwoodgate
:* White Moor
Blackbrook
The hamlet of Blackbrook is located 2 miles (3 km) west of Belper on the
A517 Ashbourne road.
Openwoodgate
The adjoining community of Openwoodgate lies to the east, 1 mile from the centre of Belper. A small eastern portion, centred around Openwood Road and the Kilburn Lane section of the A609 road, containing the historic Ireton Houses cottages, and bordered by the
A38, is contained within
Denby
Denby is a village in the English county of Derbyshire that is notable as the birthplace of John Flamsteed, England's first Astronomer Royal, and the location of the Denby Pottery Company. The population at the 2001 Census was 1,827, increasing ...
parish.
Hills
Firestone Hill is to the west of the town by the parish boundary, and is the highest point at . Several masts for communications are positioned there.
Another local feature is Bessalone Hill at to the north. It also maintains radio masts.
Pinchom's Hill is north of Bargate, by Sandbed Lane. It is in height.
Wyver Nature Reserve
This lies west of the River Derwent and just north of Belper. The reserve lies on a nineteen-acre site and is part of the Derwent Valley Heritage Way. It is placed on a reoccurring flood plain which makes it an attractive place for wildlife, especially wading birds.
Economy
Belper's economy was traditionally reliant on manufacturing industry and numerous goods were made in the town. Cotton spinning and textile production were major employers virtually for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The large East Mill and the smaller North Mill are now all that remain of the industry and are preserved as part of the
Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site
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.
During the Second World War,
Rolls-Royce based the
Merlin aero engine design team and
Robotham's engine design division developing the
Meteor
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Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as mi ...
tank engine at Belper. After the Second World War, J. W. Thornton, the chocolate maker, moved into the town from
Sheffield
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, which helped to alleviate the employment problems arising from the contraction of the earlier industries. In 1985, the company relocated to a new site a few miles away in
Swanwick.
Today, the main employment sectors are retail and services although some manufacturing industry remains. The main shopping area is centred on King Street and Bridge Street. The town has three supermarkets, the Co-operative, Morrisons and Aldi. There are two discount shops, Poundland and B&M Bargains. There are smaller Tesco and Co-op supermarkets on the Whitemoor estate.
Transport
Road
The
A6 is the major through-road of the town and runs parallel to the River Derwent to the west.
Rail
Belper railway station
Belper railway station serves the town of Belper in Derbyshire, England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line from to via , north of St Pancras.
Description
Access to the station can be gained via a narrow alleyway from King Stre ...
is situated on the
Midland Main Line. Regular trains between Derby and
Matlock on the
Derwent Valley Line are almost the only services to stop there, although one main line service to and from Sheffield stops on weekdays at times designed to assist Belper residents working in Sheffield. The group 'Friends of the Derwent Valley Line' are campaigning for more such services.
Buses
The town is served by regular bus services to Derby and surrounding towns and villages as well as longer routes to Manchester and London. The major operator is
Trent Barton who operate the bus garage on Bridge Street.
Religion
The oldest church still used for its original purpose is the Belper Unitarian Church, built in 1788. The present Methodist church was opened on 28 June 1807 and was originally built to hold 1,400 worshippers.
St Peter's Church St. Peter's Church, Old St. Peter's Church, or other variations may refer to:
* St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
Australia
* St Peter's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
* St Peters Church, St Peters, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
...
, a prominent landmark in the town, was built in 1824 to replace the smaller 13th century St John's Chapel which is now used as a town council and heritage chamber. A second Anglican church,
Christ Church, was built in 1850. A local saying calls St Peter's "the
low church in the high place" and Christ Church "the
high church in the low place" based on their different liturgical traditions.
The town is also home to
Belper Baptist Church, a spiritualist, a
Roman Catholic
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* Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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,
Belper Congregational Church and a further
Methodist
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church at Openwoodgate, as well as Belper Community Church which meets at Whitemoor Day Centre three times a month.
Public services
Babington Hospital provides health services to the local people.
The town has a fire station, with one fire engine crewed by retained personnel.
Culture
Sport
Belper Town F.C. play their home games at Christchurch Meadow
and are currently in the
Northern Premier League Premier Division. They are nicknamed the Nailers as a reference to the historical nail manufacturing industry in the town.
Belper Rugby Club play their home games at Strutt's Playing Field and are currently competing in RFU Midlands 3 East (North).
The club was founded in 1975.
Belper United F.C. is a football club based in Belper, Derbyshire, England. They are currently members of the
United Counties League Division One and play at Christchurch Meadow, the home of Belper Town.
Belper Meadows Cricket Club was founded in 1880 and still plays on Christchurch Meadows, formerly the private ground of Mr G H Strutt, which it took as its home when the ground on Derwent Street on which the Belper Cricket Club founded in 1857 had played became unavailable. The club was a founder member (1970) and three times champion of the Central Derbyshire Cricket League before that league merged with the Derbyshire County Cricket League in 1991.
Poetry Trail
In 2009, members from two of the town's poetry groups completed a poetry trail in memory of local poet Beth Fender, who died in 2002. Beth's Poetry Trail consists of 20 poems situated in a variety of locations in the town, such as outside Belper Library. Poems by
Emily Dickinson,
Philip Larkin and
Spike Milligan are included on the trail, as well as Beth's own poetry.
Awards
In 2014, Belper was presented with the High Street of the Year award for the Market Town category, as well as winning the award overall. The judges stated "Belper is blessed with a wonderful history as a World Heritage Site but has much to offer as a thriving market town as well. The judges felt that this outstanding application demonstrates how much more can be done to transform an outwardly successful town centre into a go-to destination for locals and visitors alike." Belper won against towns and high streets such as
Brighton
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Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
,
Colwyn Bay and many other places. Belper won a further award in the Champion High Street category in 2019.
Music
Belper Singers are an experienced chamber choir of some 25 voices, who sing both sacred and secular works. They give about five performances a year, including singing in various cathedrals.
Belper is also home to a weekly folk club welcoming singers, instrumentalists, poets, readers and audience members. Two traditional dance teams make their home in the town: Heage Windmillers (rapper) and Makeney Morris (Cotswold morris).
Andy Sneap (born in Belper) is a Grammy-winning music producer, songwriter and guitarist with British
heavy metal band
Hell
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. He is one of the most active and successful music producers in the metal music genre, with over 100 albums produced at his Backstage Recording studios in the rural outskirts of the town.
The Belper Moo
The Belper Moo began in March 2020, in response to the nationwide lockdown prompted by the
COVID-19 crisis
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. Started by Belper resident Jasper Ward, it was advertised on social media as a means of 'fighting lockdown stress, boredom and loneliness'. At 6.30pm, every evening, Belper residents were encouraged to mimic a cow's moo from their windows, doorways and gardens while following social distancing guidelines. The idea quickly caught the imagination of the people and Belper and spread rapidly around the town. Many residents fashioned their own devices for amplifying their moos, which became known as 'Moocraphones', 'Didgerimoos', Megamoophones' and 'Saxamoophones'. Following coverage on BBC radio and on BBC Online, 'The Moo' attracted media attention worldwide. Residents uploaded their 'moos' to the internet and a number of creative responses followed including songs, craft projects and poems. By early May, The Belper Moo had been participated in by thousands of residents for over 50 days. The Moo was resurrected during the November 2020 lockdown.
Pride in Belper
Belper has an annual Pride event, supporting the LGBT community, usually the first Saturday in August. This started in 2019 and has grown into a large community event with a parade, music and arts activities.
Belper Arts Trail
The annual Belper Arts Trail is an artist led initiative which aims for artists to exhibit and promote their work. It began in 2014 when two artists wanted to help strengthen the local artistic community and to find interesting and creative solutions to the lack of dedicated space in Belper for artists to exhibit. Utilising every possible space as a venue over the Arts Trail weekend art can now be found in a variety of unusual spaces.
With Belper and Derbyshire overflowing with artistic talent it was felt that Belper really needed an interactive trail of creativity which has now grown each year to become a key Derbyshire event. The trail takes place annually over the May Day Bank Holiday.
Education
Primary schools
There are eight primary schools which feed the single secondary school:
* Holbrook Primary School;
* St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy;
* St John's Church of England Primary School;
* Herbert Strutt Primary School;
* Pottery Primary School;
* Long Row Primary School;
* Ambergate Primary School;
* Milford Primary School.
Secondary schools
Belper School and Sixth Form Centre
has approximately 1,400 pupils aged 11–18. It was originally named "Belper High School" when it was built in 1973, and is adjacent to Belper Leisure Centre. Famous people to have attended the school include
Ross Davenport – winner of two swimming gold medals at the
2006 Commonwealth Games – and
Alison Hargreaves
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, holder of a number of mountaineering records.
Herbert Strutt Grammar School was among the Strutt family's bequests to the town. It became a middle school in 1973, with the opening of the new Belper High School, and latterly a primary school, in use as such until spring 2008 when it was replaced by a new building on a different site. Notable among its pupils were the actors
Alan Bates
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and
Timothy Dalton.
For a number of years from 1979, the innovative
Rowen House School
Rowen House was an independent British boarding school founded in 1979 in Belper, Derbyshire. The name was not a misspelling, but a reference to the Utopian thinker and eutopian practitioner, Robert Owen. This "educational experiment" used the po ...
provided education on
democratic principles. Also, during the 1970s and 1980s, Belper was the site of an experimental three-tier education system, comprising a number of primary schools (age 5–9 years, referred to as "first" schools), feeding into two main secondary schools (age 9–13 years, referred to as "middle schools"), pupils from both then usually attended a single American-style high school (age 13–18 years). In the mid-1980s, this scheme was abandoned, and the current two-tier system adopted. At the same time, one of the two secondary schools, Parks Secondary School, was closed down and the buildings, which were in a poor state of repair, demolished. In recent years, the site of the former Parks Secondary School has been used for a new school.
International links
Belper is
twinned with
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
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after
Samuel Slater – an apprentice of Jedediah Strutt – went there and founded the
American
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** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
cotton spinning industry.
Belper made international news in 2001 after rejecting a gift of a large fibreglass
Mr. Potato Head model from Pawtucket, as some residents considered it "hideous". The statue was refurbished and returned in 2015, though opinion is still divided.
Notable residents
*
Tom Ballard, rock climber and alpinist, who was the first mountaineer to climb the six major alpine north faces solo in a single winter season.
*
Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story '' Whistle Down the Wind'' to the " kitchen sink" dram ...
, actor, attended Strutt's School
*
Maxwell Caulfield
Maxwell Caulfield (né Maxwell P.J. Newby; born 23 November 1959) is a British-American film, stage, and television actor and singer. He has appeared in ''Grease 2'' (1982), '' Electric Dreams'' (1984), '' The Boys Next Door'' (1985), ''The Su ...
, stage, film and television actor
*
Barry Coope (1954–2021), folk musician, was born here
*
Timothy Dalton, actor, the fourth
James Bond
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, was brought up here
*
Ross Davenport, Commonwealth games double gold medalist swimmer
*
Monica Edwards, children's writer, was born here in 1912
*
Alison Hargreaves
Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountain climber. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. She soloed all the great ...
, mountain climber, known for scaling Mount Everest unaided and soloing all the great north faces of the Alps in a single season, grew up in Belper and attended Belper High School
*
Will Hay
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, comedian and actor, lived in Belper while performing locally in the 1920s
*
Andrew Jarrett
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Jarrett was educated at Millfield from 1969 to 1975. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won one ...
, tournament referee at
Wimbledon for 14 years from 2006
*
Suzy Kendall, first wife of Dudley Moore, actress in British and Italian films
*
John Lawton, novelist, author of ''Black Out'' and ''Blue Rondo'', was born here
*
Penelope Mortimer, novelist, author of ''The Pumpkin Eater'', was the daughter of the vicar of St Peter's church
*
Tracy Shaw, actress, played
Maxine Peacock
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Daniel Osbourne
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(1995–2003) in ''
Coronation Street
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Orig ...
''
*
Samuel Slater, "father of the
American Industrial Revolution", grew up on Chevin Road
[Everett et al. (Slater Study Group) (2006) ''"Samuel Slater – Hero or Traitor?"'' Milford, Derbyshire: Maypole Promotions] and apprenticed at
Milford
*
Admiral Sir Trevor Alan Soar, former
Commander in Chief Fleet of the Royal Navy, was born in Belper.
*
Bombardier Charles Stone who was awarded the
VC was born, and is buried, here
*
Jedediah Strutt, inventor and industrialist, opened his first mill in Belper (1777)
*
Frank Swettenham, colonial ruler of Malaya, author, was born in Belper in 1850.
Frank Swettenham at biography.com
Retrieved June 2007
* Nigel Vardy, mountaineer, grew up in Belper and attended Long Row Primary School, Herbert Strutt Middle School and Belper High School
*Ron Webster
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, professional footballer, born in Belper in 1943. A full back, Webster played 455 league games for Derby County between 1960 and 1978.
See also
*Listed buildings in Belper
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References
* Naylor, P. ''(Ed)'' (2000) ''An Illustrated History of Belper and its Environs'' Belper: M.G.Morris
External links
Love Belper Website
Belper Town Council
Belper Research Website
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