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The town of Chesterfield had been an ancient borough.It was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, governed by a corporate body called "the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Chesterfield", generally known as the corporation or town council. [2]
Chesterfield CC compete in the Derbyshire County Cricket League, a designated ECB Premier League, at the top level for recreational club cricket in Derbyshire. [71] Chesterfield were League Champions in 2008 and are one of only three clubs to have remained in the top flight of the League since it was created in 1999. [70]
Derbyshire (/ ˈ d ɑːr b i ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DAR-bee-sheer, -shər) [4] is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south and west, and Cheshire to the west.
Chesterfield was a municipal borough in Derbyshire, England from 1835 to 1974. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was formed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 from the Ancient borough of Chesterfield. In 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 the borough was abolished and combined with the Staveley Urban District and the Brimington civil parish of ...
Old Whittington is a village in the Borough of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England. Old Whittington is 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Chesterfield and 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Sheffield. The population of the Old Whittington ward at the 2011 Census was 4,181. [1] The village lies on the River Rother. Population in 1901 was 9,416. [2]
Chesterfield F.C., the football team of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England Chesterfield Inn , Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, listed on the NRHP, now demolished Chesterfield Pictures , a film company active from 1925 to 1936 until it was merged into Republic Pictures
New Whittington is a village located in the Borough of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, England, near to Whittington Moor and Old Whittington. It is also to the west of Barrow Hill and Staveley . [ 1 ] In 2011 the Barrow Hill and New Whittington ward had a population of 5,903.
The word shire derives from the Old English sċir, from the Proto-Germanic *skizo (Old High German: scira), denoting an 'official charge' a 'district under a governor', and a 'care'. [1] In the UK, shire became synonymous with county , an administrative term introduced to England through the Norman Conquest in the later part of the eleventh ...