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Chesterfield: Area, History and Background
Riding are well acquainted with the United Kingdom, its cities and towns.
Below is some historic, cultural and background information about the area of Chesterfield in the United Kingdom.
- Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England.
- It lies north of the city of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper.
- Including Staveley, the population of Chesterfield is 100,879, although that of the town itself is 70,260.
- It is Derbyshire's largest town, although the county town of Derbyshire is Matlock in the Derbyshire Dales.
- Around 250,000 people live in the immediate area nearby including Dronfield, Bolsover, Staveley, Shirebrook and Clay Cross.
- It is located on the A61, 6 miles from the M1 (via the A617 to J29 and A632 to J29A), and forms part of the Sheffield City Region.
- Chesterfield received its market charter in the year 1204 from King John and around two hundred and fifty stalls can still be found in the town centre every Monday, Friday and Saturday.
- It is also home to the area's only RSPCA Branch.
- Chesterfield's biggest employer is now the "Post Office" administration department located in a newly constructed building located on the edge of the town centre.
- The Royal Mail's Pensions Service Centre is near the town on Boythorpe Road, in Rowland Hill House.
- There is another Royal Mail building in the town on West Bars called Future Walk, recently sold to CPP.
- It is home to one of the largest open air markets in Britain, the stalls sitting either side of the historic Market Hall.
- In the middle of town, a collection of narrow medieval streets make up "The Shambles", which house The Royal Oak, one of Britain's oldest pubs.
- Its Library is located just outside The Pavements on New Beetwell Street.
- Junction 29 of the M1 motorway at Heath links Chesterfield to the motorway network to the south, via the A617 dual-carriageway.
- Construction of the new Junction 29a has been completed at Markham Vale, Duckmanton, and the new junction opened at the end of June 2008,
- Chesterfield has links to the M1 at Junction 30 and the North via the A619.
- Other major roads to it include the A61 Sheffield Road (north)/ Derby Road (south) which has a dual carriageway beginning in the town centre and
- continuing onto Sheffield.
- Other major roads to it include the A619 which is a major inroad to the Peak District, eventually joining the A6 near Bakewell.
- Other major roads to Chesterfield include and the A632 to Matlock.
- It railway station is located on the Midland Main Line, with East Midlands Trains providing services to London, Sheffield, Leicester, Leeds and Liverpool.
- Chesterfield railway station is located on the Midland Main Line, with East Midlands Trains providing services to Nottingham and Norwich and CrossCountry serving Newcastle, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Edinburgh and Plymouth.
- It previously had two other rail stations.
- In addition to railways, Chesterfield had a tramway system, built in 1882, and closed in 1927.
- It is home to the Football League Two club Chesterfield F.C. who play at the Recreation Ground which is usually referred to as Saltergate.
- Chesterfield has a competitive athletic team which competes regularly all over England.
- It also has its own amateur Sunday football league that plays host to over 100 teams on a Sunday morning.
- A speedway training track operated at Glasshouse Farm in the early 1950s.
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