Chesterfield and its famous Crooked Spire is a popular place to live.Chesterfield and its famous Crooked Spire is a popular place to live.
Chesterfield and its famous Crooked Spire is a popular place to live.

Where do people move to Chesterfield from? The top 13 places in the UK people leave for a new life in the shadow of the Crooked Spire are revealed

People from Chesterfield know it is a great place to live – and it turns out that thousands of other Brits agree!

In fact, in the 12 months to June 2019, 4,791 people moved to set up home in Chesterfield from elsewhere in the UK.

That is according to internal migration data from the Office for National Statistics, which also reveals the areas of the country where the most people are drawn to Chesterfield from.

So where is the pull to our beautiful town the greatest?

From North East Derbyshire to Leicester, here we reveal the top 13 places people leave in search of a new life here…

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