Discover Darley Abbey, one of the key communities within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. It was here, in an area previously known for its abbey and later water-mills, that Thomas Evans and his sons William and Walter harnessed the power of the Derwent to power their cotton mill complex, now one of the most complete early cotton factory sites surviving in the world. To house the mill workers an industrial community was created on the opposite bank, incorporating earlier buildings.

Or explore from Darley Abbey, the River Derwent flows between two Conservation Areas, Strutt’s Park and Little Chester, before passing Derby’s Museum of Making.