Arkwright Town

Arkwright Town, commonly referred to as Arkwright, is a village in North East Derbyshire, England that is notable for having moved its location in the early 1990s.[1] Despite its name, the village has no official town status.

Arkwright Town
New Arkwright Town
Arkwright Town Location within Derbyshire
Population	1,582 (In Sutton cum Duckmanton 2011)
OS grid reference	SK427713
Civil parish	Sutton cum Duckmanton
District	North East Derbyshire
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTERFIELD
Postcode district	S44 5
Dialling code	01246
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	North East Derbyshire

For the settlement with a similar name in the USA see Arkwright, New York. The village is in the Sutton cum Duckmanton civil parish.

Located between Chesterfield and Bolsover on the A632 road it was formerly a coal mining village. Arkwright Colliery closed in 1988 and it was then discovered that the community was threatened by emissions of methane gas[1] that caused some of its houses to be evacuated.[2] The whole village was owned by British Coal and a decision was taken, along with Derbyshire County Council, to transfer ownership of the 52 properties to a housing trust, construct a new village of 56 properties to the north of the site affected by methane, and move all the residents. Construction was completed by 1995 when the old Arkwright Town was demolished. Part of the deal with British Coal included the use of open cast mining on a 100-acre site which began in November 1993 and continued for some years.[2]

A new nature walk was established in 2010 using the uninhabitable waste land that was once used as a railway line.