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  • ...east of Manchester city centre and six miles north-west of [[Glossop]] ([[Derbyshire]]). It had a population of 22,568 as at the 2001 Census. With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of the first centres of textile manufacture
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  • ...ser to the new king Stephen; it is likely that Robert fortified of Shilton Hill as the Anarchy broke out between Stephen and Matilda, to protect the vale o ...estates in Staffordshire. From his mother, he inherited land at Foston in Derbyshire and Peatling, Countesthorpe and Earl Shilton in Leicestershire. With his c
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  • ...miles north-east of [[Derby]], on the border between Nottinghamshire and [[Derbyshire]]. ...s of Nottingham and the cold limestone, the ash trees, the stone fences of Derbyshire|D H Lawrence, 1929 ''Nottingham & the Mining Country''<ref>{{cite book | fi
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  • {{county|Derbyshire}} ...ty top|highest point]] of [[Staffordshire]] is in the Peak District on the Derbyshire border, though it is conventional to assign all beyond that county border t
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  • ...1,656 feet, while a little beyond is [[Cheeks Hill]], on the border with [[Derbyshire]] on which is Staffordshire's highest point, at 1,705 feet. ...[[Dovedale]], the [[Manifold Valley]] including [[Thor's Cave]], [[Wetton Mill]], [[Longnor]] and [[Butterton]].
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  • ...in [[Sheffield]] on the boundary of the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]] and [[Derbyshire]]. Its source is the union of the Totley Brook and the Old Hay Brook in Tot ...reach Dore and Totley railway station, which was built on the site of Walk Mill in 1872.<ref name=walk>{{harvnb |Ball, Crossley |Flavell |2006 |p=156}}</re
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  • |county=Derbyshire '''Chinley''' is a rural village in the north-west of [[Derbyshire]], in the [[Peak District|Peak]], in the Blackbrook Valley, up the valley f
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  • ...census, it had a recorded population of 4,638. It is also the name of the hill at whose foot the village stands. The village is 6 miles northwest of [[Ma Alderley Edge village is at the base of the hill known as Alderley Edge, a steep and thickly wooded sandstone ridge which is
    28 KB (4,579 words) - 08:51, 25 May 2019
  • ...tion, for reasons which are not clear, but the army apparently crossed the hill into [[Romiley]], which although not on the direct route, is duly described ...in the 19th century little more than a group of hamlets, including Barrack Hill, Harrytown and Hatherlow, but the Industrial Revolution brought a number of
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  • |picture=Goyt Mill.jpg |picture caption=Goyt Mill
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  • {{county|Derbyshire}} ....<ref>[http://www.ashbourne-town.com/villages/dovedale/index.html Dovedale Derbyshire]</ref>
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  • ...ree Shires Head''' is the point on [[Axe Edge Moor]] where [[Cheshire]], [[Derbyshire]] and [[Staffordshire]] meet, at {{wmap|53.213|-1.987|zoom=14}}. ...e to [[Cheeks Hill]], on the higher regions of Axe Edge Moor. From Cheeks Hill the border runs south then east to the head of the [[River Dove]].<ref>Ordn
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  • ...e of another village, [[Quarndon, Derbyshire|Quarndon]], in neighbouring [[Derbyshire]].<ref>http://www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=899</ref> ..., presumably because millstones or quern stones could be quarried from the hill, as indeed they have been since Roman times or earlier.
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  • *Hadden Hill Golf Club - [[Didcot]] *Mill Ride Golf Club - [[Maidenhead]]
    119 KB (17,852 words) - 09:36, 16 December 2022
  • |county=Derbyshire |picture=Eckington Village Centre (NE Derbyshire) - geograph.org.uk - 113673.jpg
    8 KB (1,244 words) - 13:03, 22 June 2016
  • |county=Derbyshire |LG district=Derbyshire Dales
    8 KB (1,240 words) - 12:36, 5 July 2016
  • [[File:Williamsmithshouse.jpg|thumb|House at Tucking Mill, next to the canal, reputedly lived in by William Smith, though this is dis ...had successfully installed inclined planes at the [[Peak Forest Canal]] in Derbyshire, whilst 22&nbsp;locks and a Boulton & Watt Steam Pumping Station, capable o
    29 KB (4,616 words) - 13:27, 1 March 2019
  • {{county|Derbyshire}} ...e]], which in its day brought the products of the mines and mills of the [[Derbyshire Dales]] to the wider canal network. It ran 14½ miles from [[Cromford]] to
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  • |county=Derbyshire |LG district=Derbyshire Dales
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  • ...01.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Wetton village viewed from Wetton Low with Wetton Hill in background]] ...ill (or Wettonmill), a nearby hamlet on the [[River Manifold]], and Wetton Hill, which are both in the care of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic
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