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Sitting just inside the South Derbyshire border, Melbourne serves as a quiet, self-contained hub roughly eight miles south of Derby. It’s a place where the landscape changes from the industrial Midlands into rolling farmland and market gardens, a legacy of its long history as a centre for soft fruit and vegetable growing. Life here tends to revolve around the wide, Georgian-fronted streets of the centre and the prominent Norman church, St Michael with St Mary, which sits near the mill pond known locally as Melbourne Pool. While it shares its name with the Australian city - the former Prime Minister Lord Melbourne lived at Melbourne Hall here and gave his title to the southern metropolis - the feel is much more that of a traditional English market town. The High Street remains active with independent shops and several decent pubs, and while the nearby East Midlands Airport provides convenient practical links, the village itself retains a distinct, slightly tucked-away atmosphere, anchored by its proximity to the National Forest.