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Derbyshire
Derbyshire county (1991 pop. 915,000), 1,016 sq mi (2,632 sq km), central England. The county seat is Derby . The terrain of the county is flat in the south, rising in the north to more than 2,000 ft (610 m) in the Peak district. The region is drained by the Trent River, with the Dove, the Derwent... Read more
Glossop
Glossop , town (1991 pop. 29,923), Derbyshire, central England. It is a residential suburb of Manchester. A chief cotton-manufacturing city of Derbyshire, Glossop also has an engineering industry. Other products are woolens, canned goods, and paper. The town is adjacent to Peak District National Par... Read more
Dove
Dove , river, c.40 mi (60 km) long, rising in the Pennines, Derbyshire, central England, and flowing S and SE to the River Trent near Burton upon Trent. It forms much of the Derbyshire-Staffordshire boundary. Its watercourse was a haunt of Izaak Walton and still provides fishing. The rocky and woo... Read more
Chatsworth
Chatsworth estate, Derbyshire, central England, near Chesterfield. It is the seat of the dukes of Devonshire. Begun in 1552, the present Classical-style Chatsworth House was rebuilt in 1686. It has notable gardens, libraries, picture galleries, and collections of sculpture. Bibliography: See ... Read more
Ilkeston
Ilkeston , town (1991 pop. 34,683), Derbyshire, central England. Iron and coal mines lie to the south. Rayon, lace, hosiery, and iron goods are manufactured. Ilkeston is mentioned in the Domesday Book . Eastwood, a nearby mining village, is the birthplace of D. H. Lawrence , and many of his novels... Read more
Midlands
Midlands region of central England. It is usually considered to include the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire, as well as Birmingham and the surrounding metropolitan districts (the former West Midlands). The re... Read more
Peak District
Peak District or The Peak, dissected plateau, c.30 mi (50 km) long and 22 mi (35 km) wide, Derbyshire, central England, forming the southern extremity of the Pennines. Kinderscout (2,088 ft/636 m) is the highest peak. Dovedale and Wyedale are the region's major valleys. Peak District has many c... Read more
Repton
Repton village, Derbyshire, central England. It was once a capital of the kingdom of Mercia . A monastery, the seat of the Mercia bishops, stood there in the 7th cent. but was later destroyed by the Danes. Remains exist of a priory founded in 1172, and the Church of St. Wystan has a fine Saxon cry... Read more
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton 1803-65, English architect, noted for his use of glass and iron in a proto-modern manner. Beginning his career as a gardener and estate manager, he then built two greenhouses at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, for the duke of Devonshire. The first was the great conservatory (1836-40); the... Read more
Pennines
Pennines or Pennine Chain, mountain range, sometimes called the "backbone of England," extending c.160 mi (260 km) from the Cheviot Hills on the Scottish border to the Peak District in Derbyshire. The range consists of a series of upland blocks, separated by transverse valleys (Tees, Aire, ... Read more

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Derbyshire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Derbyshire is a heart-shaped county in the heart...but thereafter Danish invasions placed Derbyshire in the front line of battle until 1013...country. Throughout the medieval period Derbyshire remained sparsely populated, but numerous...
England
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire...Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire...
Hargreaves, Alison
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...February 17, 1962, and grew up the middle child of three in Derbyshire, England. Her mother was a teacher and her father a scientific...London Sunday Times, Hargreaves recounted those school days in Derbyshire. "Hilary Boardman was a teacher there. Everyone at that...
Dove
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...river, c.40 mi (60 km) long, rising in the Pennines, Derbyshire, central England, and flowing S and SE to the River Trent near Burton upon Trent. It forms much of the Derbyshire-Staffordshire boundary. Its watercourse was a haunt of...
Luddites
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Midlands counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire, the Luddites comprised (almost exclusively) workers in...and Flintshire. In Manchester, north Cheshire, and north Derbyshire, Luddism was frequently joined to food rioting and agitation...
minerals
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...in the neck swells to produce a goitre . In the county of Derbyshire in England the local rocks are such that the iodide content...that goitre was common in the region, where it was known as Derbyshire Neck. Goitre has now disappeared, as most table salt is...
Derby, diocese of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...diocese of. The see, roughly conterminous with Derbyshire, was created in 1927 out of the diocese of Southwell...ecclesiastical union in 1884 of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, formerly in the Lincoln and Lichfield dioceses...
Glossop
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Glossop , town (1991 pop. 29,923), Derbyshire, central England. It is a residential suburb of Manchester. A chief cotton-manufacturing city of Derbyshire, Glossop also has an engineering industry. Other products are woolens, canned...
Giles Lytton Strachey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...parents inhabited: the Victorian era. For primary education Strachey went to uncongenial upper-class boarding schools in Derbyshire and to Leamington College. He left the "petticoat world of Victorian schoolrooms" for Liverpool University in 1897, where...
Samuel Slater
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Samuel Slater 1768-1835, American pioneer in the cotton textile industry, b. Derbyshire, England. As an apprentice and later a mill supervisor, he gained a thorough knowledge of all the cotton-manufacturing machinery...

Dictionary entries related to "Derbyshire"

Derbyshire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Derbyshire is a heart‐shaped county...survives). Throughout the medieval period Derbyshire remained sparsely populated. The county...development of cotton‐mills in Derbyshire (notably by Arkwright at Cromford...
Derbyshire neck
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing Derbyshire neck ( dar -bi-sher) n. endemic goitre that was once common in Derbyshire due to lack of iodine in the soil and water.
Farey, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...journals. In 1807 he began a survey of Derbyshire for the Board of Agriculture, which...Farey ’ s investigation of Derbyshire soils and strata began in 1807, and...succession of strata from Ashover in Derbyshire to the Lincolnshire coast (i.e...
Bates, Alan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...BATES, Alan Nationality: British. Born: Arthur Bates in Allestree, Derbyshire, 19 February 1934. Education: Attended Herbert Strutt Grammar School, Belper, Derbyshire; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Military Service: early 1950s...
Derby, diocese of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Derby, diocese of The see, roughly Derbyshire, was created in 1927 out of the diocese of Southwell , where the ecclesiastical union in 1884 of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire had not been a success. The cathedral is the former parish church.
Braciaca
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology Braciaca [cf. W brag , malt]. An obscure god of Roman Britain remembered in an inscription at Haddon House, Derbyshire.
Hopton Wood stone
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Hopton Wood stone. A very hard limestone from the Hopton Wood Quarries, near Middleton, Derbyshire, varying in colour from light grey to light tan, flecked with dark-grey glistening crystalline speckles. It can be cut to...
Pentrich Rising
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Pentrich Rising (1817) A quasi-political insurrection which took place in Derbyshire, England. Led by Jeremiah Brandreth, a framework knitter, a group of about 200 men from Pentrich and other nearby villages...
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...x2018;Bess of Hardwick’ was one of the most remarkable women in Elizabethan England. The daughter of a Derbyshire squire, she gained wealth and status through four increasingly ambitious marriages, the last (in 1567) to George Talbot...
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th duke of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...1720–64). Cavendish came from a highly political Whig family. He entered Parliament at the age of 21 for Derbyshire, and succeeded as duke in 1755. After serving as master of the horse 1751–5, he was made lord‐lieutenant...

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Local company boosts Derbyshire Schools Golf.
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