Matlock

Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England. It is situated on the south japanese edge of the Peak District. The city is twinned with the French metropolis Eaubonne. The former spa hotel Matlock Bath lies right away south of the town at the A6. The civil parish of Matlock Town had a population in the 2011 UK census of 9,543. The populace of the wider Matlock urban place is approximately 20,000.

The Matlock area is considered to encompass Wirksworth, because of the close proximity of the cities. Matlock is 9 miles south-west of Chesterfield, and in clean reach of the towns of Derby, Sheffield, and Nottingham; the Greater Manchester conurbation is 30 miles away. Matlock is inside the Derbyshire Dales district, which also includes the towns of Bakewell and Ashbourne, as well as Wirksworth. The headquarters of Derbyshire County Council are inside the metropolis.

The call Matlock derives from the Old English maethel meaning assembly or speech, and ac, that means very welltree; therefore Matlock approach 'moot-oak', an alrighttree in which conferences are held. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it become recorded as Meslach and in 1196 it changed into named Matlac. It is a former spa metropolis that lies at the River Derwent, and has prospered from both the hydrotherapy industry and the fabric turbines constructed on the river and its tributary Bentley Brook.