Smisby is an ancient manor, civil parish and small village in South Derbyshire, England.

The village including the outlying farms and houses has a population just over 200 that occupies some 110 properties.

Considered the best exemplar of the type in the county, it is a Grade II* listed building.

[9] Within 200 metres of the village is a spot where a tournament was held that was described by Sir Walter Scott in his novel Ivanhoe.

On the verge of a wood, which approached to within a mile of the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oak-trees, some of which had grown to an immense size.