Denby; Denby Hall Colliery; FL 1876-1967; coal mine
Denby; Salterwood Pumping Station; fl 1932-1947; pumping station for coal mine
Hartshay, Ripley; Upper Hartshay Colliery; fl 1835-1934; coal mine
Ripley; Butterley Company; 1790-2009; iron manufacture, engineeing, colliery and brick company
Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer