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Extract from the Derby Travel Guides:
The proximity of the Peak District might lead you to think that
DERBY
, twenty-five miles northeast of Lichfield, could prove to be an interesting stopping-off point. Sadly, the city - a status conferred as recently as 1977 - is an unexciting place, though its workaday centre is partly redeemed by several long and handsome nineteenth-century stone terraces and its
cathedral
, whose pinnacled tower soars high above its modest surroundings on Queen Street. Of the city's several museums, easily the best is the attractively laid-out
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
on the Strand (Mon 11am-5pm, Tues-Sat 10am... read the whole Derby Travel Guides...
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