Soon after her return from her 27,400-mile journey, the woman from landlocked Derbyshire was made a Dame. |
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At Repton in Derbyshire, a few burials were excavated around the crypt of St Wystan's church. |
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Bill Greenshields, secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Derbyshire, says the staff feel they are being put over a barrel. |
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Hilary Mantel was born in 1952 and brought up in an unpicturesque village in Derbyshire, in the northwest of England. |
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Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones. |
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Well-dressing festivals light up the Derbyshire dales all summer long, blazing from village to village like a beacon chain. |
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Once a year wells in Derbyshire are decorated with displays made from natural materials in thanksgiving for the supply of pure spring water. |
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This time she will stay in north Derbyshire in the hope she may make contact. |
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Born in Derbyshire, Richardson settled in London and became a master printer. |
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The 13-strong caving group included non-military personnel John Taylor of North Derbyshire and Kevin Welch from North Yorkshire. |
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The figures were lower in the Trent region, which covers South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire, where there were 3,850 admissions. |
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It was February, and I'd driven from Derbyshire down to Heathrow to catch the IBM executive jet. |
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A long-running deadlock over who should clear up an unauthorised tip in Derbyshire has finally been broken. |
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In the 18th century, Derbyshire valleys echoed with the sound of the iron forges lining the banks of fast-flowing rivers. |
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Even his honeymoon to northern Italy in 1833, on his marriage to Constance Mundy of Markeaton, Derbyshire, turned into a botanising trip. |
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But the decision looked to be a good one, for at the close of play Derbyshire had reached 311 for four. |
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The Mary Townley Loop is named after the horsewoman who rode from Derbyshire to Northumberland to launch the idea of the Bridleway. |
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The Derbyshire side are slight favourites to progress to a clash in the last four at Sheffield, due to their seventh place in the league table. |
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There's a gospel choir, steel band, the Derbyshire teenage group Forgotten and Loughborough University Tuxedo Swing Orchestra. |
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Five minutes into the second half the Derbyshire outfit broke the deadlock following a disputed free-kick. |
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A promoter who booked them to play in Ripley, Derbyshire, suggested he change his name to Cliff Richard. |
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In 1998 it recommenced extraction of sandstone from a quarry at Stancliffe in Derbyshire. |
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Mr Derbyshire refers to Bolton street lights being powered by Welsh wind farms, and thereby extols their virtues. |
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The European grant will be split between the High Peak and the Derbyshire Dales and it will include the market town of Bakewell. |
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Durham dodged the showers to record their first championship win at Chester-le-Street for two years when they beat Derbyshire by 30 runs. |
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The others are the Derwent Valley Mills in Derbyshire, and New Lanark in South Lanarkshire. |
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Miss Ul Haq said she heard a smash, Mr Derbyshire ran into the pub and Syed was in shock. |
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Helen Mark's out and about in the hills and dales of Derbyshire, a county with a landscape that's literally as pretty as a picture. |
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In Switzerland, particularly in the Vallais, the people are subject to excrescences on the throat similar to the Derbyshire neck. |
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Up in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, balls, often roughly hewn and traditionally of applewood, are used to topple skittles that are club shaped. |
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I must agree with Mr Derbyshire that clean energy from renewable sources is the way forward. |
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Yorkshire were in buoyant mood today for their Benson and Hedges Cup match against Derbyshire at Headingley which marked the opening of their home season. |
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The Derbyshire club had dropped points just once before this season after winning seven and drawing one of the first eight games to open a four point gap at the top. |
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And Sussex lost against Derbyshire in the one-day cricket today. gah. |
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He was arrested by anti-terrorist officers last Wednesday while searches were carried out at three residential addresses and a farm in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. |
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It was a technical triumph, using live link-ups to Scotland, Plymouth, London, Manchester, Belfast, Derbyshire and Bangor, with Lomax at the centre of the web in Birmingham. |
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Gardeners are being urged to vote with their wellies and reject peat after a trial in North Derbyshire proved that plants can do just as well without it. |
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The unregarded Bangladeshis, brutally beaten in two Tests and a one-dayer by England, and also by Derbyshire, unearthed an inspired performance from somewhere. |
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Is National Review getting better or worse by exiling Sailer and Derbyshire? |
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He claims that south-facing peaks in the Derbyshire Peak District, which has the same geology as Greece, will become warm enough to support grape growth within 50 years. |
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Our weekend cottage is situated in a quiet but rather smart village in the Derbyshire Peak District, somewhere between Ashbourne, Bakewell and Buxton. |
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He received his later education at a preparatory school in Sussex, Repton School in Derbyshire, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. |
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The Hanson Log Boat was a bronze age boat found in a gravel pit in Shardlow in Derbyshire. |
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One of the most famous pieces of portable art from Britain is the Robin Hood Cave Horse from Derbyshire. |
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Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth School of the Society of Friends, and apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills, Derbyshire. |
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Slater Mill resembled the Beverly Cotton Manufactory and a mill in Derbyshire in which he had worked. |
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The falling price of lead brought the decline of the Derbyshire lead mining industry towards the end of the 19th century. |
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He married Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Coke, through which marriage Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire came into the Lamb family. |
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Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England, on June 9, 1768, the fifth son of a farming family of eight children. |
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Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, Bowbridge House in Derbyshire, and Great Barr Hall. |
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The road crosses the Trent and Mersey Canal and River Trent, where it enters Derbyshire and the district of South Derbyshire. |
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Some months later, Elizabeth and her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner visit Darcy's estate in Derbyshire, Pemberley. |
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It is mostly in northern Derbyshire, but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. |
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However, a roughly parallel Pennine Bridleway is also open from Derbyshire to Cumbria. |
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High Peak was the name of a hundred of the ancient county of Derbyshire covering roughly the same area as the current district. |
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At the same time the Tintwistle Rural District was transferred to Derbyshire. |
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The name first occurs in 1016, but until 1568 the county was administratively united with Derbyshire, under a single Sheriff. |
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Completely encircling the Nottingham conurbation, it stretches for several miles into the surrounding districts, and extends into Derbyshire. |
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It became more difficult for Lancashire to compete with the more easily worked mines in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. |
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It is part of the larger Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield. |
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Kinder Scout is accessible from the villages of Hayfield and Edale in the High Peak of Derbyshire. |
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The Dark Peak is the higher, wilder northern part of the Peak District in England, mainly in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. |
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Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England. |
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The higher part of the Chew Valley is across the border with High Peak in Derbyshire. |
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The hill is also accessible from Crowden in Derbyshire and from the A635 to the north. |
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The river then flows under Derbyshire Bridge, which was the old boundary between Derbyshire and Cheshire. |
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Once past Howden Reservoir, both banks of the river are in Derbyshire, and the river remains in the county to its mouth. |
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The River Derwent provides the name for the oldest hockey club in Derbyshire. |
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At the upper tier, services such as consumer protection, education, main roads and social services are provided by Derbyshire County Council. |
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Derbyshire County Council returned to Labour control at the 2013 local elections. |
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The crest depicts a Derby Ram, representing the county of Derbyshire, and a mural crown, suggestive of a town wall and thus borough status. |
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Derbyshire County Council is opposed to this development, and is seeking legal advice on whether the matter can be taken to judicial review. |
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Many of the sites were restored by contractor Killingleys for Derbyshire County Council. |
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Also in the town are the headquarters of the Derbyshire Times, the local newspaper, which does not cover all of the county. |
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The Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Branch of the RSPCA is located in the town, and serves the North East Derbyshire area. |
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Queen's Park also plays host to Chesterfield Cricket Club and is an outground of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. |
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Chesterfield is served by Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, which has fire stations in Chesterfield, Clay Cross, Clowne and Staveley. |
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It is close to the county borders of Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east and Staffordshire to the south. |
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The county borders Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. |
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Kirklees Highways dept will clear its side of road as far as the border with Derbyshire. |
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Derbyshire County Council Highways Authority are responsible for clearing the southern side of the road. |
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The second stage of the 2014 Tour de France followed the route across the Pennines to Derbyshire. |
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The custom is most closely associated with the Peak District of Derbyshire and Staffordshire. |
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The location identified most closely with well dressing is Tissington, Derbyshire, though the origins of the tradition are obscure. |
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He visits the milliner's shop in London and determines, using Straker's photograph, that Straker posed as Derbyshire. |
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Stephenson remained at Alton Grange until 1838 before moving to Tapton House in Derbyshire. |
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There are karst landscapes in calcite areas such as parts of Yorkshire and Derbyshire. |
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In 1770 Arkwright and partners built a water powered mill in Cromford, Derbyshire. |
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After he patented his water frame in 1769, he established Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, England. |
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Arkwright and his partners used water power at a factory in Cromford, Derbyshire in 1771, giving the invention its name. |
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This is within western parts of Yorkshire and eastern parts of Derbyshire with foothills also continuing into western parts of Nottinghamshire. |
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The limestone is exposed at the surface in the north of the range, in the North Pennines AONB, and in the south in the Derbyshire Peak District. |
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Another Danelaw site is the cremation site at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire. |
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Labour subsequently gained nearly 300 councillors, as well as control of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire County Councils. |
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Also in 2009, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire county councils changed control from Labour to Conservative. |
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Leicestershire and Derbyshire also regularly tend to produce GCSE results at a standard greater than the national average. |
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The city of Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. |
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These chambered tombs were designed for collective burial and are mostly located in the central Derbyshire region. |
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During the Roman invasion the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the limestone hills of the area. |
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A number of specialist organisations protect, promote and monitor records of individual animal groups across Derbyshire. |
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Derbyshire residents are part of the electorate for the East Midlands constituency for elections to the European Parliament. |
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Derbyshire has become fractionally smaller during government reorganisation over the years. |
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The eight district councils in Derbyshire and the unitary authority of Derby are shown in the map above. |
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club currently play in Division Two of the County Championship. |
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Derbyshire is also host to one of the only community Muggle quidditch teams in the country, known as Derby Union Quidditch Club. |
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The county of Derbyshire has many attractions for both tourists and local people. |
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In 2015, BBC Radio Derby commissioned a Derbyshire anthem, entitled 'Our Derbyshire', including lyrics suggested by its listeners. |
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In that novel, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is named as one of the estates Elizabeth Bennet visits before arriving at Pemberley. |
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Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel Peveril of the Peak is partly set in Derbyshire. |
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The events of the play Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire. |
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The 1987 film The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner, starring Robin Wright and Cary Elwes, was partly filmed in Derbyshire. |
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The 1988 film The Lair of the White Worm by Ken Russell, starring Hugh Grant, was filmed in Derbyshire. |
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It is mostly in northern Derbyshire, but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire and Yorkshire. |
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Key scenes in Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice are set in the Derbyshire Peak District. |
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Additionally, some areas of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire have been administratively associated with the North. |
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It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, of which it was traditionally the county town. |
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Derby and Derbyshire were among the centres of Britain's Industrial Revolution. |
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This was followed in Derbyshire by Jedediah Strutt's cotton spinning mills at Belper. |
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By traditional definitions, Derby is the county town of Derbyshire, although Derbyshire's administrative centre has in recent years been Matlock. |
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Arthur Keily the marathon runner and Olympian was born in Derbyshire in 1921 and has lived his whole life in Derby. |
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Six months after his wedding, George contracted pleurisy and died, aged 67, on 12 August 1848 at Tapton House in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. |
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In 1901, Edgar Purnell Hooley was walking in Denby, Derbyshire when he noticed a smooth stretch of road close to an ironworks. |
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He was interred in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire. |
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For example, in 1874 when Derbyshire was held by some to have won the title, they played only four matches while Yorkshire played twelve. |
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But in 1771, he converted to water power and built a new mill in the Derbyshire village of Cromford. |
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Richardson, one of nine children, was probably born in 1689 in Mackworth, Derbyshire, to Samuel and Elizabeth Richardson. |
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The couple stopped in a lay-by about half-a-mile on the Derbyshire side of Holme Moss to take their Russian wolfhound, Jake, for a walk. |
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Salutatorian Mark Derbyshire said Gray's joy put into perspective the importance of a high school degree. |
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The home-bred shearling from their Millend flock, sired by Brookvale Gold Charm, went to High Peak, Derbyshire, with P F and S Mellor. |
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West Indies ran into more trouble when they were skittled by a weakened Derbyshire team in less than 41 overs yesterday. |
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A friend of mine who visited called it Derbyshire Neck but could not explain where he got this term from. |
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Susan Tabberer, headteacher at Pingle Secondary School in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, told parents a probe has been launched. |
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Lois's dad Mark and brother Sam were also learning to hang-glide at the centre in Derbyshire. |
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Britain's first Hen Harrier Day will be held in the Derbyshire Peak District, a day before the annual grouse shooting seasons begins on Tuesday. |
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Mick Extance, from Derbyshire was the first Englishman past the post, on a Rally Raid UK motorbike. |
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Chesterfield is a market town and a borough in Derbyshire, England. |
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Derbyshire also has a cricket team based at the County Cricket Ground. |
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The Derbyshire school system is comprehensive with no selective schools. |
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Other boundary changes in the county included the expansion of the county borough of Sheffield southward in areas historically in Derbyshire such as Dore. |
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The High Peak is an alternative name for the Dark Peak, but High Peak is also the name of an administrative district of Derbyshire which includes part of the White Peak. |
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Broadly speaking, the White Peak covers the Derbyshire Peaks from the Hope Valley southwards, and the Staffordshire Peaks north of the Churnet Valley. |
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Glover noted in 1829 that all three types of crossing were still in use on the Derbyshire section of the Trent, but that the fords were derelict and dangerous. |
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Council officials received a tip-off in the form of a note and an Ordnance Survey map with an arrow pointing to the spot in Whatstandwell, Derbyshire. |
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Kevin Pietersen had earlier completed his fourth century in eight innings against Derbyshire, sharing a record partnership of 217 for the third wicket with Gallian. |
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Derby remains part of Derbyshire only for ceremonial purposes. |
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The tune was written by Aussieborn composer Ron Grainer, who worked with Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on the theme tune to Doctor Who. |
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These include the Sherwood sandstones that occur beneath much of eastern Nottinghamshire, the Permian Lower Magnesian limestone and the carboniferous limestone in Derbyshire. |
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Its northern limits lie along the A62 road between Marsden and Oldham, and its southernmost point is on the A52 road on the outskirts of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. |
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The children were sent to the mills of Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire from the workhouses in London and other towns and cities in the south of England. |
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Early Derbyshire lead mines were fairly shallow, since methods to remove water were inefficient and miners had to stop when they reached the water table. |
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Abandoned gaslight in Poole's Cavern, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. |
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Younger still are the sandstones, shales and coal deposits found on the eastern flank of Derbyshire, forming the Coal Measures, which are of Westphalian age. |
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Premier Pitches of Nether Handley, off the A6052 at Unstone in northeast Derbyshire, made the pitch for Wembley Stadium, as well as for many other main pitches. |
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He was buried at St Helen's Church, Darley Dale, Derbyshire. |
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It is bordered by several other historic counties in the form of County Durham, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Westmorland. |
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After leaving school Whitworth became an indentured apprentice to his uncle, Joseph Hulse, a cotton spinner at Amber Mill, Oakerthorpe in Derbyshire. |
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The Lancashire and Derbyshire mills needed a pool of cheap labour. |
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Minor variations still endure between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. |
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At the same time, the surviving population in Scotland and the Lake District had pushed further south beyond Yorkshire and Lancashire and into Derbyshire and Humberside. |
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Filings with the Trades Union Certification Officer showed that the NUM's Derbyshire branch had just four members, three of whom were paid officials. |
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Hoskin, who joined the club only in May taking over from Gus Williams, quit his position within hours of the Seagulls' 0-0 draw with Derbyshire side Ilkeston. |
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Titan in the Peak District, the deepest shaft known in Britain, is connected to Peak Cavern in Castleton, Derbyshire, the largest cave entrance in the country. |
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Chesney Hughes, is a West Indian cricketer who plays for Derbyshire. |
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Membership rose to between 10,000 and 20,000 individuals spread across the five counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire within a year. |
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MacArthur was born in Derbyshire where she lived with her parents, who were both teachers, and two brothers Fergus and Lewis,who now live in Pennsylvania. |
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In the same season, Brown and Tunnicliffe established a record partnership for the first wicket when they scored 554 against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. |
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Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. |
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The Herdings line then runs on reserved track, and the Halfway line crosses the county border into Derbyshire and out again on reserved lines in the countryside. |
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Chesterfield Museum in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, has a gallery of Stephenson memorabilia, including straight thick glass tubes he invented for growing straight cucumbers. |
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She was seen on CCTV in February hugging the teenager, who has learning difficulties and attachment disorder, while she was in the care of Derbyshire social services. |
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After finishing his schooling at Anthony Joles grammar in Wirkswith, Derbyshire, David came to the North West to study for an engineering degree at Salford University. |
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The custom waxed and waned over the years, but has seen revivals in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Kent. |
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The mast provides VHF coverage of both FM and DAB to a wide area around the mast including Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. |
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Weekend and bank holiday services operate to Glossop in north Derbyshire. |
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With some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base. |
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The Luddite riots that began in 1811 in England spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire as wheat prices soar and inflate the price of bread. |
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Chesterfield Swimming Club, the largest competitive swimming club in North Derbyshire, is based at the Queen's Park Sports Centre on Boythorpe Road. |
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Chesterfield is located on the confluence and valleys of the River Rother and River Hipper at the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield. |
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