What does Derbyshire mean?

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Mervin Austin mills his own flour using French burr stones and Derbyshire peak stones.
A promoter who booked them to play in Ripley, Derbyshire, suggested he change his name to Cliff Richard.
Even his honeymoon to northern Italy in 1833, on his marriage to Constance Mundy of Markeaton, Derbyshire, turned into a botanising trip.
In 1998 it recommenced extraction of sandstone from a quarry at Stancliffe in Derbyshire.
Hilary Mantel was born in 1952 and brought up in an unpicturesque village in Derbyshire, in the northwest of England.
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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