Where's nice to live in Derbyshire?

[AnduinsGirl]

Partner and I are looking to re-locate further south in the next year or so to be closer to families, etc (but not too close!) Derbyshire seems to be our final choice and we've seen there are some lovely towns as well as the Peaks of course. Partner would like to live close to the city centre, or at least a town with good access to the city; I would like this too, but definitely want to be within reasonable driving distance of the gorgeous countryside.
I'd be really grateful for suggestions! Belper is already on the list as a possible....
TIA

Belper or Matlock. Heage is also nice (not a town, more of a village on the outskirts of Belper).

I would live in Sheffield too, West/South West of the city. Sheffield is near to the beautiful Peak District, some parts of Derbyshire are not so nice with little amenities.

Also check broadband in the villages. Where our friends live there isn’t any and they get a crappy mobile signal too.

Everywhere in Derbyshire apart from Derby itself.

Where do you need to be 'nearer to'
Ashbourne and Buxton are both lovely with surrounding villages but you can be pretty cut off in winter.

'Partner would like to live close to the city centre'

What City do you mean?

Today 19:08TheDoctorDances

Not everyone in the pit villages is backwards, I moved out here to commute from the city because it's quiet, pretty and affordable. My asthma has improved immensely and I'm paying less for a mortgage than I did for a pokey flat. Hugs big cheap house.

They are good value areas. Most of the schools with those catchments, I enjoyed teaching in more than some of the leafier suburb type schools I've worked in. They tend to just get in all the pupils that live in the area which sweeps in the full range from the towns as well as neighbouring villages, but they do tend to have a proportion of cohort that have lived there for generations and have little cause to go very far.

I remember my first day of teaching practice and asking if there were any pupils with English as an additional language, and a voice growled from the corner of the staffroom, "only the kids from... (insert neighbouring village) He was only half joking

The last one I was at, the kids weren't always the easiest to actually teach, but they were generally lovely to know and tended to be very down to earth.