River Amber
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The River Amber is a river in Derbyshire, which rises near Ashover, near Clay Cross, and flows southwards through Ogston Reservoir to Pentrich then westwards to join the River Derwent at Ambergate. It gives its name to the local government district and borough of Amber Valley.
Like many such rivers flowing from the Derbyshire, it gave a good supply for water mills, many of them for crushing locally mined and quarried minerals, such as limestone.
It also provided a route for the Cromford Canal and the North Midland Railway.
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