Getting here

Derbyshire Record Office is located in New Street in what was previously the Ernest Bailey Grammar School and originally Bank House Hydro.

Search room opening times:

Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4.45pm.

A restricted service is available from 12.30 to 20pm.

We are also open one Saturday per month.  

We are closed on Sundays, Bank Holidays, Good Friday, the Tuesday following Easter and one day between Boxing Day and New Year's Day. 

Contact us

For more information please contact the Record Office at:

New Street
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3AG

Alternatively telephone us on the following numbers:

• 01629 585347 (Record Office Search Room)
• 01629 580000 ext 59202 (General Office)
• 01629 580000 ext 59207 (Duty Archivist)

Fax: 01629 57611
email: record.office@derbyshire.gov.uk

The following information should help you to find the Record Office wherever, and however, you are travelling to us.

How to get to the Derbyshire Record Office

By car - from Derby, Buxton, Bakewell andAshbourne

Follow the A6 to Matlock. You will need to cross the bridge if approaching from the south.

Turn left at the Crown Square roundabout and carry on past Matlock Town Hall towards County Offices which is at the top of the hill. Before you reach County Offices, you will see on your right the Methodist Church with its spire and the sign for Derbyshire Record Office.

Turn right here into Oak Road.

Follow Oak Road to its junction with New Street, turn right and then almost immediately left into the Derbyshire Record Office car park.

By car - from Chesterfield

Follow the A632 to Matlock.

At the sign for County Offices, turn right into Smedley Street.

At the junction of Smedley Street with Bank Road (by County Offices), turn left.

Take the second left turn into Oak Road: there is a sign for Derbyshire Record Office.

Follow Oak Road to its junction with New Street, turn right and then almost immediately left into the Derbyshire Record Office car park.

By car - from the M1 motorway and Alfreton

Leave the motorway at Junction 28 and follow signs for Matlock.

From Alfreton follow the A615 to Matlock.

Approaching Matlock town centre, having passed the football ground on your right, take the first right turn into Steep Turnpike, at the junction with the building containing Maazi Restaurant and Derbyshire Adult Education Centre (formerly the site of the Ritz Cinema) on the corner.

Take the first left turn into New Street and go straight ahead up the hill until you see the sign for Derbyshire Record Office.

Turn right into the Derbyshire Record Office car park.

Matlock is well provided with public car parks and adjacent to the Record Office there are some parking spaces reserved for Record Office users, including disabled  people.

By bus

There are bus services to Matlock from Derby, Manchester, Buxton, Bakewell and Chesterfield.

There are two bus stations, each about ten minutes’ walk from the Record Office.

On leaving the southbound bus station opposite the Railway Hotel, turn left, then turn left again at the Crown Square roundabout, onto Bank Road.

From the northbound station next to the railway station, cross the bridge to the Crown Square roundabout and then go straight ahead onto Bank Road. 

From Bank Road, take the first right by the Post Office into Lime Grove Walk and continue straight ahead to the T-junction with New Street where you turn left.

The entrance to Derbyshire Record Office is about 75 metres up the hill on your right.

By train

There are services to and from all parts of the country to Derby.

From Derby, there are approximately hourly train services to Matlock, with a reduced service on Sundays.

The journey takes approximately 35 minutes.

Matlock railway station is about ten minutes’ walk from Derbyshire Record Office.

At the exit from the railway station approach, turn left and cross the bridge.

At the Crown Square roundabout, cross over into Bank Road, straight ahead.

Turn first right by the Post Office into Lime Grove Walk, continue straight ahead to the T-junction with New Street where you turn left.

The entrance to Derbyshire Record Office is about 75 metres up the hill on your right.