Belper
Belper is a town in the Amber Valley of Derbyshire, 7 miles north of Derby, with a population in 2011 of 21,823. It's been industrial since medieval times, thanks to nearby deposits of ironstone, made into nails and other ironware.
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Places of Interest
Highlights: Derwent Valley Mills and Belper railway station.
Belper railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hazelwood and Holbrook.
Kilburn
Village
Belper
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.0229° or 53° 1′ 23″ north
Longitude
-1.4817° or 1° 28′ 54″ west
Population
23,400
Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB BLP
Open location code
9C5W2GF9+58
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Belper” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلبر”
- Asturian: “Belper”
- Basque: “Belper”
- Bengali: “বেলপার”
- Bulgarian: “Белпър”
- Cebuano: “Belper”
- Chinese: “貝帕”
- Chinese: “貝柏”
- Chinese: “贝尔珀”
- Chinese: “贝柏”
- Dutch: “Belper”
- Esperanto: “Belper”
- Esperanto: “Belpero”
- French: “Belper”
- German: “Belper”
- Gujarati: “બેલ્પર”
- Hebrew: “בלפר”
- Irish: “Belper”
- Italian: “Belper”
- Japanese: “ベルパー”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಪರ್”
- Korean: “벨퍼”
- Ladin: “Belper”
- Lithuanian: “Belperis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Belper”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belper”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belper”
- Norwegian: “Belper”
- Persian: “بلپر”
- Polish: “Belper”
- Portuguese: “Belper”
- Romanian: “Belper”
- Russian: “Белпер”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلپر”
- Spanish: “Belper”
- Swedish: “Belper”
- Tamil: “பெல்பேர்”
- Telugu: “బెల్పేర్”
- Turkish: “Belper”
- Urdu: “بیلپر”
- Volapük: “Belper”
- Welsh: “Belper”
- “Belper”
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Places to explore: The Clusters and Belper Meadows.
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