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    The history of Derbyshire can be traced back to human settlement since the last Ice Age, over 10,000 years ago. The county of Derbyshire in England dates...
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    Derbyshire (/ˈdɑːrbiʃɪər, -ʃər/ DAR-bee-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire...
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    article details some of the history of lead mining in Derbyshire, England. It has been claimed that Odin Mine, near Castleton, one of the oldest lead mines...
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  • Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the...
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    in Derbyshire, England was created. The village of Ashopton, Derwent Woodlands church, and Derwent Hall were also 'drowned' in the construction of the...
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    Valley district of Derbyshire, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Derby. It is centred on the western bank of the River Derwent at the mouth of the River Ecclesbourne...
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    Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire (born 2 October 1968) is a British journalist, newsreader and broadcaster. Her eponymous current affairs and debate programme...
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    The mass trespass of Kinder Scout was a trespass protest at Kinder Scout in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, on 24 April 1932. The protest sought...
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    ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. It is 24 miles (39 km) north of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) south of Sheffield at the confluence of the Rivers Rother...
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  • This is a list of estates of nobility in the county of Derbyshire in England. It includes current and former family seats of the Peerage of England. The...
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  • website, An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal My Primitive Methodists UK website, Places section, Ripley Circuit, Derbyshire, article by Rev....
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    John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born American journalist, political commentator, and computer programmer. He was noted for being one of the...
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    Sough (category History of Derbyshire)
    closely associated with the lead mining areas of Derbyshire (see Derbyshire lead mining history). Early Derbyshire lead mines were fairly shallow, since methods...
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    Haddon Hall (category History of Derbyshire)
    River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, a former seat of the Dukes of Rutland. It is the home of Lord Edward Manners (brother of the incumbent Duke) and his...
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  • Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic...
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  • This is a list of places formerly administered as part the county of Derbyshire which is located in England. Appleby Magna Beighton ward, Sheffield Croxall...
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    Derby (redirect from Capital of Derbyshire)
    a city and unitary authority area on the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original county town. As...
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    Baseball Ground (category History of Derbyshire)
    formed in 1884, as an offshoot of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club. The football club played on a pitch that was part of the Derby cricket ground, which...
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    Belper (redirect from Belper, Derbyshire)
    parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about 7 miles (11 km) north of Derby on the River Derwent. Along with...
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  • Pentrich rising (category Military history of Derbyshire)
    of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom. It occurred on the night of 9–10 June 1817. While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of...
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    town of Derbyshire, England. It is in the south-eastern part of the Peak District, with the National Park directly to the west. The spa resort of Matlock...
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  • Solar Pyramid (category History of Derbyshire)
    site in Derbyshire, and later one in Dorset, failed to attract sufficient finance or public support to be constructed. The design consisted of three towers...
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    Duffield Castle was a Norman Castle in Duffield, Derbyshire. The site is a scheduled monument. It was on a rocky promontory facing the river, easily defended...
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  • South East Derbyshire was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It covered an area to the south-east of Derby. It was formed as Shardlow...
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    in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, at the western end of the Hope Valley on the Peakshole Water, a tributary of the River Noe, between the...
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  • The Hundreds of Derbyshire were the geographic divisions of the historic county of Derbyshire for administrative, military and judicial purposes. They...
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    Viscount Scarsdale, of Scarsdale in Derbyshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the prominent Conservative...
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  • This is a partial list of country houses in Derbyshire which have been demolished: Appleby Hall, demolished 1920s Aston Lodge, Aston-on-Trent, demolished...
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    MV Derbyshire was a British ore-bulk-oil combination carrier built in 1976 by Swan Hunter, as the last in the series of the Bridge-class sextet. She was...
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    civil parish in South Derbyshire, England. It was home to Thomas Cook, and has a street named after him. It is 8 miles (13 km) south of Derby and 2 miles...
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