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The Derbyshire Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper based in Chesterfield and sold throughout northern Derbyshire, including the towns of Dronfield, Staveley, Bolsover, North Wingfield, Clay Cross, Alfreton, Wirksworth, Matlock and Bakewell, as well as the High Peak area around Hathersage.

It was founded in 1854 as the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. Since then it’s achieved a number of firsts, including becoming the first weekly newspaper in England to introduce linotype setting (in 1893), and the first acquisition of the Johnston Press group of regional and local newspapers in England (in the 1970s). It also absorbed a local rival, the Derbyshire Courier, in 1922. It switched to tabloid format in 1986.

It’s published by Wilfred Edmunds (Derbyshire Times) Ltd, part of Johnston Press’s Northern division, and as of 2007 its circulation was in the Top Ten for regional weekly titles.

Until recently there were five editions:

  • Chesterfield/Clay Cross
  • East
  • North East
  • Alfreton
  • Matlock/Peak

but these seem to have been reduced to just two: Chesterfield (by far the larger) and Alfreton.

There’s also a whole stable of weekly paid and freesheet companion titles:

(There were even more, but the High Peak Courier and Peak Times merged to form the Peak Courier in 2009, and the Bolsover Advertiser closed in 2011.)

It comes out on Thursdays.

  • Address:
  • Derbyshire Times
    37 Station Road
    CHESTERFIELD
    S41 7XD
  • Tel:
  • 01246 504500
  • Fax:
  • 01246 504557

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