The Matlock Mercury is a weekly newspaper published on a Thursday in the United Kingdom which serves Matlock, Darley Dale, Wirksworth, Bakewell and smaller villages in the Derbyshire Dales area of Derbyshire.

The Matlock Mercury began life in the late 1940s as Coming Events, an entertainments guide published by Ella Smith from her house on Bakewell Road, Matlock which remained as the newspaper's home until October 2000 when a new office opened on Firs Parade in the centre of the town.

Ella Smith sold the Mercury to John Uprichard a successful journalist and TV news reporter in the mid-1970s.

Stephen Downing, was a 17-year-old with the reading age of an 11-year-old, who was imprisoned for the murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell in 1973.

[1] The drama was based on Hale's book Town Without Pity (Century, 2002),[2] which he updated in 2019 as Murder in the Graveyard (HarperElement).