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Exploring Derbyshire: A Quiz on History, Geography, and Culture

Test your knowledge about Derbyshire's geography, history, and cultural significance with this engaging quiz.

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1 The ________ contains 30 towns with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants.

2 The landscape varies from typical arable country in the flat lands to the south of Derby, to the hill farming of the high gritstone ________ of the southern Pennines, which effectively begin to the north of the city.

3 The county offers spectacular Peak District scenery such as Mam Tor, Kinder Scout, and other more metropolitan attractions such as ________, Buxton, and Derby.

4 This industry has left its mark on the countryside but is still a major industry a lot of the stone is supplied as crushed stone for road building and ________ manufacture and is moved by rail.

5 Several kings of ________ are buried in the Repton area.

6 George Eliot's novel ________ is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth.

7 Further occupation came with the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age when ________ hunter gatherers roamed the hilly tundra.

8 In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice the country home of ________, Pemberley, is in Derbyshire.

9 Other major employers in the county, especially around the Derby area, are ________, Egg Banking plc and Toyota.

10 Derbyshire County Cricket Club currently play in Division two of the ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • ancient jousting battles near Smisby in Derbyshire provided the inspiration for a similar scene in the book Ivanhoe.
  • a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting corpses in Derbyshire.
  • Shire Brook in Sheffield, England, was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years.
  • Samuel Pegge, a Derbyshire antiquarian, published a book compiled by Richard II's cooks called Forme of Cury.
  • the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England.
  • the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, which includes a mixture of mills and workers' housing, is considered the birthplace of the factory system.
  • the last man to be gibbetted in Derbyshire was hung in chains near Wardlow and Wardlow Mires (pictured) because he had the tollkeeper's red shoes.
  • the The Bull Ring is a henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire.
  • the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall,Derbyshire.
  • Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School.
  • Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII.
  • Ebenezer Rhodes (pictured), Sheffield's Master Cutler, was declared bankrupt after losing money publishing books about Derbyshire.
  • Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years".
  • Anchor Church in Derbyshire had its caves extended to be a summerhouse for Sir Francis Burdett.
  • Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia.
  • Harrington Bridge is a listed building, except for the central section which crosses the River Trent into Derbyshire, England.
  • Hungry Bentley, an abandoned village in Derbyshire, England, was named for the poor quality of its land.
  • Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, was once the seat of Victorian Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and thus is the ultimate origin for the naming of Melbourne, Australia.
  • John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil.
  • John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish.
  • Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England.
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