Around 1893 a cable tramway was built along Bank Road, from Crown Square at Matlock Bridge to Smedley Street, in which Smedley's Hydro was placed. Conceived by Job Smith, a tram was inspired by San Francisco's famous cable cars, and cost £20,000. After it was built it was the steepest tramway within the globe at a gradient of Unity in 5½, & it rose 300 feet. A fare was twopence higher, penny down. It closed within 1927 after losing business to cars and buses.

the tram shelter from either Crown Square is currently within Hall Leys Park, a big Victorian park next to the river which opened inside 1898. a park currently boasts the miniature railway, st& and a yachting pool by using the oldest going powered boats inside Britain.

Matlock lies at a to the south eastern edge of the Peak District, and is twinned with Eaubonne in France. Matlock Bath lies immediately south of the town.

Matlock has the growing reputation for the originative & performing arts which was enhanced around 2004 when the annual arts festival Matlock Survive! began. It requires place around June or even July.

Railways
Matlock railway station was on the Midland Railway line between London and Manchester, until the subdivision between Matlock & Buxton was closed in 1968 during the Beeching Axe. Trains however start between Matlock & Derby on the Derwent Valley Line, and Peak Rail is a preserved railway which runs trains on a segment of the closed line between Matlock, Darley Dale and Rowsley.