Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/4


 * ...that you can now listen to the way "Derbyshire" is pronounced, and a number of other places in the county, if you have a media player plugin such as VLC media player but not Melbourne Hall?
 * ... that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum?
 * ... that King's Mead Priory was the only Benedictine Nunnery in Derbyshire?
 * ... that John Erskine Clarke produced the world's first Parish Magazine at Derby in 1859?
 * ...that Ilam Hall near Ashbourne is in Staffordshire as it is the wrong side of Dovedale?
 * ...that Eldon Hill is a source of quarried limestone?

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 * DYK Feb 2007