Curbar

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|static_image = Curbar well and horse trough - geograph.org.uk - 51299.jpg

|static_image_width = 240px

|static_image_caption= Old well, horse trough and millstones at junction in centre of village

|coordinates = {{coord|53.268|-1.624|display=inline,title}}

|map_type = Derbyshire

|official_name = Curbar

|population = 417

|population_ref = (2011)

|shire_district = Derbyshire Dales

| shire_county = Derbyshire

|region = East Midlands

|constituency_westminster =

|post_town = HOPE VALLEY

|postcode_district = S32

|postcode_area = S

|dial_code = 01433

|os_grid_reference = SK251746

}}

Curbar is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 119 Buxton & Matlock (Chesterfield, Bakewell & Dove Dale)|ISBN= 9780319231890 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html |title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer |format=csv (download) |date= 1 January 2016 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |accessdate=18 February 2016}} The population based on the 2011 Census was 417.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122466&c=Cromford&d=16&e=62&g=6413716&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458657393656&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=22 March 2016|publisher=Office for National statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|archive-date=17 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017085144/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122466&c=Cromford&d=16&e=62&g=6413716&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458657393656&enc=1|url-status=dead}} Curbar is situated a mile north of Baslow, close to Calver on the A623.

The village has a street (Bar Road) with the highest average house value in Derbyshire.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} Close to the east are the popular rock-climbing escarpments of Curbar Edge and Baslow Edge. To the west of the village is the River Derwent. The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.

Immediately to the south of the church stands Curbar Primary School, which serves the three villages of Curbar, Calver and Froggatt. The school is the custodian of an old May custom known as the Maybough.{{cn|date=July 2020}} On the first of May, or as soon as possible thereafter, a tree-branch is brought into school and decorated with flowers by the children. The Maybough is taken to various points in Curbar and Calver, where it is displayed to the accompaniment of songs and a dance. Several attempts have been made to ascertain the origin of the Maybough. The event was originally performed by the villagers rather than the school, the switchover taking place around the time of the First World War.{{fact|date=April 2021}}