These are eight miles northward of Derby, on the River Derwent, and has a people of 20,000. As the comparatively settlement, it contains the little searching metropolitan area as much as King Street, many grade school & a lycee. There is a big Morrisons store by the side of the A6. Belper railway station is situated on the Midland Main Line, and is primarily served by local trains on the Derby-Matlock service.

When you took a Industrial Revolution Belper was known for its cotton mills. 100% that present remains of a two is the big East mill & the little Northerly mill. A town was developed by industrialist Jedediah Strutt around his Belper North Mill (built around 1786), which forms part of the Derwent Valley Mills. Belper was as well famed for the Belper nails which were supplied to American cowboys.

Since 1983 Belper's MP has been Patrick McLoughlin (Conservative), MP for West Derbyshire – his immediate predecessor existence a journalist Matthew Parris. For numbers of years (1945-1970) Belper was a seat of George Brown, the often controversial deputy leader of the Labour Person.

Belper School is notable in that it has there are no uniform & students call for their teachers by their number one title. It has roughly 1300 pupils, & the sixth form. It used to be known as "Belper High School" whilst it was built inside 1973. These are adjacent to the Belper leisure centre.

A town's title is probably the corruption of the title Beaurepair (beautiful location), a title from Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England, to his country seat in the 13th century. Inside 1820 Belper was the number one place in the UK to get gas lighting. Belper manufactured international news around 2001 after rejecting the gift of a big fibreglass Mr. Potato Head model from its twinned town – Pawtucket, Rhode Island – as residents considered it was "ugly".