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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Poyser, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include John Flamsteed Community School and St Clement’s Church, Horsley.
John Flamsteed Community School
School
John Flamsteed Community School is an 11–16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Denby, Derbyshire, England. It is named after Sir John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, who was a native of Denby and made early and accurate predictions of a solar eclipse in 1666.
St Clement’s Church, Horsley
Church
Photo: Rob Howl, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Clement's Church, Horsley is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Horsley, Derbyshire. St Clement’s Church, Horsley is situated 1½ miles southwest of Denby.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Denby Bottles and Horsley Woodhouse.
Denby Bottles
Hamlet
Denby Bottles is a settlement in Derbyshire, England. It is located on the B6179 road in Denby. Denby Bottles Methodist Church is in Danesby Crescent. Each of the cottages have a segment of garden which is across the road and the brook.
Horsley Woodhouse
Village
Photo: Mark Shirley, CC BY 2.0.
Horsley Woodhouse is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,219.
Kilburn
Village
Photo: Rob Bradford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilburn is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire, known as Kilbourne until around 100 years ago. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 3,618.
Denby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Denby, Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.01257° or 53° 0′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.41183° or 1° 24′ 43″ westPopulation
2,480Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DEBOpen location code
9C5W2H7Q+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 29350128OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Denby” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Денбй”
- Catalan: “Denby”
- Cebuano: “Denby”
- Chinese: “Denby”
- Dutch: “Denby”
- French: “Denby”
- Irish: “Denby”
- Italian: “Denby”
- Ladin: “Denby”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Denby”
- Polish: “Denby”
- Swedish: “Denby”
- Turkish: “Denby”
- Welsh: “Denby”
- Welsh: “Dinbych”
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Localities in the Area
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