1) Derbyshire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Derbyshire, (dar´beshr, -shir) (KEY) 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...
2) Peak (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Derbyshire. "The Queen of Scots' Pillar" is a column in the cave of the peak as clear as alabaster, and so called because Mary Queen of Scots proceeded thus far,...
3) §14. Researches in the British Museum and tour in Yorkshire and Derbyshire;
Gray appointed Professor of Modern History. VI. Gray. Vol. 10. The Age of
Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An
Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Miscellaneous Antiquities and Historic Doubts. At this time, also, he probably composed the treatise called Metrum, and Observations on the poems of Lydgate, probably...
4) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Howitt, William
...(b. Heanon, Derbyshire, 1795; d. March 3rd, 1879). The Book of the Season (1831); The History of Priestcraft (1833); The Rural Life of England (1837); Student Life...
5) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Richardson, Samuel
...(b. Derbyshire, 1689, d. July 4th, 1761). Negociations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte (1740), Pamela (1741); Clarissa Harlowe (1748); Sir Charles...
6) Repton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...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...
7) Chatsworth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Chatsworth, estate, Derbyshire, central England, near Chesterfield. It is the seat of the dukes of Devonshire. The present Chatsworth House was begun in 1687. Its...
8) Glossop. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Glossop, (glos´p) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 29,923), Derbyshire, central England. It is a residential suburb of Manchester. A chief cotton-manufacturing city of Derbyshire,...
9) Dove, river, England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Dove, river, England, (duv) (KEY) , river, c.40 mi (60 km) long, rising in the Pennines, Derbyshire, central England, and flowing S and SE to the River Trent near...
10) Shivering Mountain. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Mam Tor, a hill on the Peak of Derbyshire; so called from the waste of its mass by "shivering"-that is, breaking away in "shivers" or small pieces. This shivering...
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