Over the border in Derbyshire
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ALFRETON, Baslow,Beeley, Birchover, Birch Vale, Brackfield,Brassington, BUXTON, CHESTERFIELD, DERBY, Duffield, Earl Sterndale, Eyam, Fenny Bentley, Hardwick, HEANOR, Holbrook, Hulland Ward, ILKESTON, Little Longstone, Litton, MATLOCK, Melbourne, Monsdale Head, North Wingfield, Over Haddon, RIPLEY , Sawley, Shardlow,Sommercotes, South Normanton, Sudbury, Troway, Wardlow Mires, Winster, Wooley Moor
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Derby
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Derby The city of Derby is the traditional capital of Derbyshire situated on the west bank of the river Derwent.
Derby is famous as a railway city with extensive rail links and industry connected with the railways. It is also the home of Rolls Royce engines used to power many civilian and milatary aircraft throughout the world. The city center has a wide variety of shops and stores.
The 18th Century saw Derby as the birthplace of some of the most noteable achievements during the Industrial Revolution. Today the historic Silk Mill by the Derwent has become Derby's Industrial Museum (see below).
The River Derwent near Darley Abbey Places of Interest Derby's
Industrial Museum, Silk Mill Lane, off Full Street, Derby The Derby
Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby DE1 1BS Tel 01332
716659 is worth a visit. It llustrates the Arts, History, Natural
History and Militaria associated with Derby, including the internationally
acclaimed Collections of Derby porcelain (from 1750 onwards) and
the world famous Joseph Wright of Derby paintings. Pickford's House, 41 Friargate Derby, tel.01332 255363 a Grade One listed building, was built in 1770 by the architect Joseph Pickford as his family home and work premises. Other houses in Friar Gate, Derby's finest Georgian Street, were also designed by Pickford, but Number 41 is the only one which the public can enter and learn what domestic life was like in early nineteenth century Derby.
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