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Introduction

Derbyshire (/ˈdɑːrbiʃɪər, -ʃər/ DAR-bee-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south and west, and Cheshire to the west. Derby is the largest settlement, and Matlock is the county town.

The county has an area of 2,625 km² (1,014 sq mi) and a population of 1,053,316. The east of the county is more densely populated than the west, and contains the county's largest settlements: Derby (261,400), Chesterfield (88,483), and Swadlincote (45,000). For local government purposes Derbyshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with eight districts, and the Derby unitary authority area. The East Midlands Combined County Authority includes Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council.

The north and centre of Derbyshire are hilly and contain the southern end of the Pennines, most of which are part of the Peak District National Park. They include Kinder Scout, at 636 m (2,087 ft) the highest point in the county. The River Derwent is the longest in the county, at 66 miles (106 km), and flows south until it meets the River Trent just south of Derby. Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms, near Swadlincote, is the furthest point from the sea in the UK. (Full article...)

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Andrew Handyside and Company was an iron founder in Derby, England in the nineteenth century.

Handyside worked in his uncle Charles Baird's engineering business in Saint Petersburg before taking over the Brittania Foundry in 1848. It had first been opened around 1820 by Weatherhead and Glover to cast ornamental ironwork, and had achieved a high reputation from the skill of the workers and the quality of its moulding sand.

By the 1840s it was diversifying into railway components. Among the early customers were the Midland Railway's Derby Works for which it supplied cylinder blocks and other castings.

Handyside's output ranged from garden ornaments to railway bridges. He produced lamp posts for the new gas street lighting (one of which still exists in the Wardwick in Derby) and was one of the first to produce the new standard Post Office letterboxes. The company also supplied a dome for Henry Bessemer's conservatory.

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The following are images from various Derbyshire-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1John Turner in May 2014 (from Treak Cliff Cavern)
Image 21 High Peak
2 Derbyshire Dales
3 South Derbyshire
4 Erewash
5 Amber Valley
6 North East Derbyshire
7 Chesterfield
8 Bolsover
9 Derby (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 3Coat of arms of Derbyshire County Council (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 4The Londendale reservoirs relative to Glossop and Hadfield (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 5Stalactites in the New Series (from Treak Cliff Cavern)
Image 6Derbyshire Tenants-in-Chief listed in the Domesday Book (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 7Bottoms (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 8Nine Ladies stone circle, a scheduled monument in the Derbyshire Dales district (from Scheduled monuments in Derbyshire)
Image 9Centurial Stone from Navio Roman Fort (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 10Arbor Low henge (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 11The visitor centre and office complex (from Treak Cliff Cavern)
Image 12Derbyshire hundreds in 1832 (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 13An excavated piece of Blue John (from Treak Cliff Cavern)
Image 14View from on the top of Thorpe Cloud looking towards Bunster Hill (from Thorpe Cloud)
Image 15Valehouse (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 16Hand-drawn map of Derbyshire by Christopher Saxton from 1577 (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 17Arnfield (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 18Torside (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 19Stalactites and flowstone (from Treak Cliff Cavern)
Image 20Exposed Blue John in situ within the Witch's Cave (from Treak Cliff Cavern)
Image 21From Thorpe Cloud looking to the left of Bunster Hill with the Car Park in the middle (from Thorpe Cloud)
Image 22At the Rhodeswood reservoir dam, we see the outflow canal from the Torside Reservoir dam, alongside the Rhodeswood Reservoir. The Torside dam can be seen in the distance. To the right is Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow. To the left Bareholm Moss and Black Hill (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 23Magpie Mine (from History of Derbyshire)
Image 24Rhodeswood (from Longdendale Chain)
Image 25Woodhead (from Longdendale Chain)

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The River Dove which runs through Dovedale is a famous trout stream. Here we see the iconic set of stepping stones near Thorpe Cloud. Good riverside paths make the whole Dovedale route accessible to and popular with walkers. On one August Sunday in 1990, a footpath count recorded 4,421 walkers on the Staffordshire side of the river and 3,597 walkers on the Derbyshire bank.

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Did You Know...

... that Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby succeeded to his fathers title after his brother had been murdered?
... that Repton Abbey is traditionally thought to have been founded by Saint David, and is the burial place of two Mercian Kings?
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
...that the The Bull Ring is a henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes?
...that the North Midland Railway built the first ever railway roundhouse at their Derby Works
...that Baron St Helens attended Derby School?