East Midlands
Derbyshire
Amber Valley District

Belper

Belper is a town in the Amber Valley of , 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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  • Type: Town with 23,400 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England
  • Also known as: “Belper, Derbyshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Derwent Valley Mills and Belper railway station.

Heritage site
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is a World Heritage Site along the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England, designated in December 2001. It is administered by the Partnership.

Railway station
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serves the town of Belper in , England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to via , approximately 8 miles north of Derby.

Hospital
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is a NHS Hospital in Belper, , England. It is managed by the Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hazelwood and Heage.

Village
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is a village in at the lower end of the around five miles north of , England. Ordnance Survey maps in the nineteenth century spelt it Hazzlewood.

Village
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the Amber Valley district, in the county of , England. It is situated midway between Belper and Ripley. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Belper.

Village
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is a village in at the southern end of the around five miles north of , England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,538.

Belper

Latitude
53.0229° or 53° 1′ 23″ north
Longitude
-1.4817° or 1° 28′ 54″ west
Population
23,400
Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BLP
Open location code
9C5W2GF9+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29348659
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655942
Wiki­data ID
Q2080375
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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: “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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Belper”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.