Present Day
Town-centre shoppers are well served by car parking facilities, the main shops, civic amenities and sports centre with swimming pool lying conveniently in the upper town around the civic centre.
The town's football ground, located next to the Coach and Horses pub, is now home to the world's oldest football team, Sheffield F.C..
There is a rugby league side that goes by the name of Dronfield Drifters RLFC.
Dronfield is served both by a weekly local newspaper (the Dronfield Advertiser) and by a monthly magazine (The Dronfield Eye). The Dronfield Eye (colloquially known as "The Eye") also publishes the annual Dronfield Directory, which lists details of hundreds of local groups, societies and organisations.
Dronfieldonline is a locally run website, providing information online for the Dronfield community. It contains information about the area, including schools, property, local news, events provided by and for the people of Dronfield, and links to local clubs and associations. The site also has a full business directory and fully supports local business and enterprise.
Notable events are the annual Dronfield Gala and the Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston Well Dressings which are held in July.
The Dronfield 2000 Rotary Walk is a 14.5-mile (23.3 km) circular walk that circumnavigates the town.
The leisure centre is next to the civic centre.
The cricket pitch on Stonelow Road is the home of the local Coal Aston Cricket Club. The ground has high-quality facilities including home and away changing rooms, a tea room, an electronic scoreboard, a seating area in front of the pavilion and an astro-turf practice net.
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