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Dronfield also has as well several social clubs: The Contact Club, Dronfield Woodhouse Sports & Social Club, Hill Top Sports & Social Club and the Pioneer Club, to name a few.
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Dronfield and also
Dronfield is also served via rail through Dronfield railway station.
Situated close to the Pennines and many of the beauty spots of Derbyshire, Dronfield also has easy access to the Peak District National Park just away.
During the 16th century, Dronfield with its sheep farmers had a significant number of families working in the wool trade, engaged in spinning and weaving and also the production and selling of cloth.
The Dronfield Eye ( colloquially known as " The Eye ") also publishes the annual Dronfield Directory, which lists details of hundreds of local groups, societies and organisations.
Dronfield is also home to 1890 ( Dronfield ) ATC Squadron.
* Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School on Green Lane takes its intake from all of the 8 schools within Dronfield and the surrounding area, occasionally also including pupils from Sheffield and the Chesterfield area.
As well as within Chesterfield and its boroughs, the company also run certain buses to Bolsover, Clay Cross, Alfreton, Matlock, Dronfield, Sheffield, and Eckington.
It has also previously been home to Sheffield F. C., now based at the Coach and Horses Ground in Dronfield.
Dronfield and has
Dronfield is known to have been in existence prior to the 1086 Domesday Book, and has a 12th-century parish church.
Dronfield covers an area of and has as neighbours the villages and hamlets of Unstone, Holmesfield, Barlow, Apperknowle, Hundall and Eckington.
St John the Baptist has two misericords, both 20th-century additions ( one of the stalls bears the inscription “ To the glory of God and in memory of Nellie Gertrude Lucas of Red House, Dronfield, these clergy desks were given by her husband, Easter 1923 ”):
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School has an annual student exchange with a school in Sindelfingen ; this exchange helps establish links between the young people in the two towns.
Dronfield has many pubs, including:
The seat has many former mining villages and, despite some middle-class residential commuting areas for Sheffield, which are Conservative, such as Wingerworth and Dronfield, it has been generally a safe seat for Labour.
Dronfield and social
Run by three local teams, AFC Dronfield, Dronfield Town & Dronfield RFU, the complex included a state-of-the-art 3G pitch, 10 full-size pitches, superb changing facilities and a social area.
Dronfield and clubs
It contains information about the area, including schools, property, local news, events provided by and for the people of Dronfield, and links to local clubs and associations.
Dronfield and Club
Gosforth Fields is the home of Dronfield Rugby Club.
* Dronfield Rotary Club
Dronfield and Woodhouse
It comprises the three communities of Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston.
Further mines were opened at Coal Aston in 1785 and Carr Lane in Dronfield Woodhouse in 1795.
Today the town comprises the three once separate but now physically contiguous communities of Coal Aston, Dronfield, and Dronfield Woodhouse.
Dronfield Woodhouse once claimed to have the largest privately owned housing estate in Europe (" Gosforth Valley ") when it was first built in the 1970s.
Notable events are the annual Dronfield Gala and the Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston Well Dressings which are held in July.
A park in Dronfield Woodhouse was renamed after Sindelfingen in the early 1990s to celebrate this partnership ( established in 1972 ).
* Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire, England
Dronfield and Sports
* Dronfield Sports Centre 5 x 5 League
* Dronfield Sports Contact-1st XI
Dronfield and &
Construction of the Sheffield & Chesterfield line was authorised by the Midland Railway Act of 1864 but it was not until Monday 2 February 1870 that the line and Dronfield station were opened to traffic.
Dronfield and Hill
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, Dronfield grew around various industries, the most widespread of which was coal mining with pits at Stubley being mentioned in the 16th century and a map of Hill Top in the 17th century shows some workings.
Dronfield and name
There is a rugby league side that goes by the name of Dronfield Drifters RLFC.
Dronfield and .
* A small monument in the centre of the town of Dronfield in Derbyshire.
* James Duffield ( 1835 – 1914 ) and Josiah Purser ( 1848 – 1928 )-Responsible for moving the entire Dronfield steelworks ( opened in 1873 ) to Workington in 1882.
Between Sheffield and Chesterfield is a dual carriageway, avoids Dronfield as the eponymous by-pass.
They are now based at the Coach and Horses Ground in Dronfield, Derbyshire.
During his football career Jones resided in Dronfield, near Sheffield.
Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire in the North Midlands region of England.
Dronfield is sited in the valley of the River Drone in North East Derbyshire, England.
The A61 trunk road Dronfield – Unstone Bypass cuts through the town, although this is not directly accessible from the town centre itself.
Dronfield is a market town, but little is known about its early history.
The Church of St John the Baptist is known to have been built by 1135 when Oscot was rector with the parish of Dronfield covering Little Barlow, Coal Aston, Povey, Holmesfield, Apperknowle, Dore and Totley.
The wealth of the Rotheram family, who became the Lords of the Manor of Dronfield, was based on the lead trade.
In 1662 Dronfield was granted a market by Charles II, but in the 18th century, due to the nearness of Sheffield and Chesterfield, the market went into decline and ceased to exist.
In 1993 Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School ( formerly the ' Dronfield School ' and previously ' Dronfield Grammar School ') suffered major damage when its ' modern ' 1960s system built blocks were completely gutted by fire, requiring all firefighting resources from all nearby towns and Sheffield to control the blaze.
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