Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/8

... 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?

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