Somercotes listenⓘ is a village and civil parish in the district of Amber Valley in the English county of Derbyshire, close to the border with Nottinghamshire.

Whilst increasingly urbanised, there is still some agricultural land in the northern and western parts of the parish, and a small nature reserve at Pennytown Ponds.

[3] The original settlement was in what is now known as Lower Somercotes, the upper village developing much later after a turnpike road was driven through to Alfreton in the eighteenth century.

Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station used to serve the village until it was closed by Beeching in the 1960s.

[4] Clothing manufacture was a significant local employer until quite recently, with English Rose and Aertex having factories in the area.