Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/5
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- ... that Herbert Strutt, a High Sheriff of Derbyshire, bought the Glensanda estate where his son disappeared and was later found as a clothed skeleton?
- .. that Locko Preceptory is the only recorded Lazarite Preceptory in England?
- ... that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
- ... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall School, in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
- ... that John Flamsteed of Derby became the first Astronomer Royal in 1675?
- ... that Shire Brook in Sheffield was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years.?
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