Everything you need to know about Remembrance Day parades, church services and road closures across Derbyshire

Communities across Derbyshire will join forces on Remembrance Day to honour the men and women who sacrificed their lives in wartime to defend our country.

Church services and parades will be held throughout the country. They include:

Chesterfield - A service will be held at the Crooked Spire church on Sunday, November 8 at 2.30pm, followed by a parade at 3pm through the town centre and wreath-laying at the war memorial outside the Town Hall.

On Wednesday, November 11 there will be a service to mark Armistice Day at the war memorial opposite Chesterfield Town Hall on Rose Hill. The mayor, dignitaries and schoolchildren will be in attendance.

Staveley - A parade will form in Staveley Market Place on November 8 at 10.15am and leave 15 minutes later for the Garden of Remembrance, where the service takes place at 10.45am.

Brimington - A parade will leave the Brimington Recreation Ground on Station Road at 1.45pm before a service in St Michael and All Saints Church at 2pm. The parade will then hed to the memorial gates in Broom Gardens on ManorRoad where there will be wreath laying at 3pm.

Clay Cross - HIgh Street in Clay Cross will be closed between 9.30am and 12noon on November 8 to enable the Remembrance Day parade. The parade will meet in the car park at the Social Centre at 9.30am and will set off at 9.45am, led by 2326 (Clay Cross) Squadron ATC. A short service will be held at St Batholomew’s Church followed by the laying of wreaths at the memorial.

Dronfield - The following roads will be closed in Dronfield on November 8 between 10.16am and 11.45pm for the parade: Gledhill Close - Appletree Drive - Fletcher Avenue - School Lane - Lea Road - Church Street; Church Street to High Street (including access to the Civic Centre car park); Church Street to School Lane. The parade will begin on School Lane and then walk up Church Street and High Street, before arriving in the Library Gardens where a minute’s silence will be observed, hymns sung and wreaths laid.

Eckington - A rolling road closure will be operational between 9am and 11.30am on November 8 in Eckington with a signed diversion in place. The parade will assemble at 9am outside the One Stop shop on Fanshaw Road and set off at 9.15am for St Peter and St Paul Church where the service is scheduled to star between 9.45am and 10am. The Act of Remembrance, two-minute silence and wreath-laying will take place at the war memorial at 11am.

Matlock - Remembrance Day services on November 8 will begin at Pic Tor war memorial at 11am followed by a service at Starkholmes war memorial at 11.20am. A parade will take place in Matlock at 2.45pm and the main service at Park Head, Leys Park at 3pm.

A short service and two-minute silence will be held at Park Head, Leys Park on Armistice Day, Wednesday, November 11, at 11am.

Bakewell - Rolling road closures will operate in Bakewell on November 8 between the hours of 10.15.am to 11.30am, affecting the following locations: Market Street, Bridge Street, Bakewell Bridge, Rutland Square, The Square, Market Street, Buxton Road, King Street, Butts Road, Monyash Road. The parade will proceed from Market Street along Bridge Street to the war memorial in Rutland Square, where it will pause for the two-minute silence and laying of wreaths. The parde will then continue via King Street towards All Saints Parish Church, where a service will take place at 11.30am.

Alfreton - A parade will leave Alfreton House at 10.45am on November 8 to arrive at the cenotaph at 11am for a short service and wreath-laying, followed by a service at St Martin’s Church and refreshments. There will be road closures around the memorial throughout this time.

Ripley - Road closures and parking restrictions will be active around Ripley town centre on November 8 from 10am until 12 noon. A Remembrance Day parade will leave the Co-op car park at 10.30am and makes its was to All Saints Church for a service and wreath-laying in the churchyard. After the service, the parade continues down Church Street, up Grosvenor Road, and along Market Place (around the back of the town hall) to Ripley Market Place where it will be dismissed.

Belper - A service including the laying of wreaths will take place in the Memorial Gardens, Belper on November 8 at 10.30am. There will be a parade to St Peter’s Church for a service, with the commemoration concluding around 1.30pm.

An Armistice Day service will take place on November 11 at 10.45am in the Memorial Gardens.

Ilkeston - Participants in the Remembrance Day parade in Ilkeston will gather in the South Street car park on November 8 from 10.15am. The parade will leave at 10.45am for the cenotaph in the Market Place where wreaths will be laid.

A short service and two-minute silence will be observed at the cenotaph on November 11 at 11am.

*A walk around the Hardwick estate, near Chesterfield on November 11 will explore its connections to the Second World War including the site a paratroopers’ camp.

The Secrets of the Camp guided walk will offer visitors the opportunity to learn more about the history of the estate during this period, uncovering stories of its wartime past. It will start from the Visitor Welcome Building in the Stableyard area, near the Hall, at 10.45am.

The three-mile route across the historic parkland includes the Great Pond, around the former Paratroopers Camp and an area that once housed the camp's zip wire and a former assault course and will follow the old camp fence line up to the area of the former camp gates at Blingsby.

For further information about this walk, along with details of self-guided trails on the Hardwick estate, visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hardwick