Smalley is a village on the main A608 Heanor to Derby road in Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England.

Facilities in the area include a primary school at Smalley, and a college and industrial estate at Heanor Gate.

[2] It was mentioned in a charter of 1009 by King Æþelræd Unræd ("Ethelred the Unready") relating to a manor known as Westune (modern-day Weston-on-Trent)[3] which land included the areas now known as Shardlow, Great Wilne, Church Wilne, Crich, Smalley, Morley, Weston and Aston-on-Trent.

Stainsby Hall Cricket Club have their ground at the end of St. John's Road in Smalley[5] and have been playing in the Derbyshire County League since the mid-1930s.

[6] The club takes its name from the now-demolished Stainsby House just over the parish border in Horsley Woodhouse a few hundred yards from their current ground,[7] and records show that the club played in front of the old house from as early as 1863.