River Amber

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| image_caption = Amber at Clapper Bridge in Ashover

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| pushpin_map = Derbyshire

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| pushpin_map_caption= Confluence with Derwent in Derbyshire

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| discharge1_location= Wingfield Park {{cite web|url=http://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/nrfa/data/time_series.html?28048|title=28048 - Amber at Wingfield Park|work=The National River Flow Archive|publisher=Centre for Ecology & Hydrology|access-date=2013-10-02}}

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| source1 = Ashover

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| mouth = Confluence with the Derwent

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| tributaries_left = Press Brook, Alfreton Brook, Buckland-Hollow Brook

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| extra = Progression : Amber—Derwent—Trent—Humber—North Sea

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The River Amber is a left bank tributary of the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England.

It gives its name to the local government district and borough of Amber Valley.[http://www.ambervalley.gov.uk/ Amber Valley Borough Council website]{{cite book|author=English Place-Name Society|title=Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6d0hAQAAIAAJ|access-date=22 August 2015|year=1996|publisher=The Society |quote=the River Amber, Derbyshire (first attested as Ambra Hy 2, Ambre late 12th), is related to the Continental rivers Amper (Ambre Antonine Itinerary), Emmer (Ambra 9th) and Ammergau (Amber go 9th).}}

The name Amber is a pre-Celtic word with uncertain meaning.{{cite book|author=David Mills|title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXucAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12|date=20 October 2011|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-960908-6|pages=12–}}

Course

Its source is close to the village of Ashover, near Clay Cross, and it flows southwards through Ogston Reservoir to Pentrich then turns westwards through Wingfield Park to join the River Derwent at Ambergate.{{cite book|last=Ordnance Survey|title=Buxton & Matlock|publisher=Ordnance Survey|year=2003|series=OS Landranger Map Series|isbn=9780319228463}}

Like many such rivers flowing from the Derbyshire moors, it powered a number of water mills, many of them for crushing locally mined and quarried minerals, such as limestone.

The river valley also provided a route for the Cromford Canal, at the southern end as far as Butterley Tunnel, and the North Midland Railway, to travel northwards until it passed under Clay Cross via the Clay Cross Tunnel, where it entered the valley of the River Rother and then north to Chesterfield.

References

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