left|thumb|200px|The rugged moorland edge of the southern Pennines at Kinder Downfall Derbyshire has a mixture of a rural economy in the west, with a former coal-mining economy in the north-east (Bolsover district), the Erewash Valley around Ilkeston and in the south around Swadlincote. The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flatlands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines.
left|thumb|200px|The rugged moorland edge of the southern Pennines at Kinder Downfa,ll Derbyshire has a mixture of a rural economy in the west, with a former coal-mining economy in the north-east (Bolsover district) the Erewash Valley around Ilkeston and in the south around Swadlincote. The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flatlands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines.