Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/6


 * ... that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill (pictured) made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals?
 * ... that Gresley Parish Church (pictured) was a 12th century Augustinian priory?
 * ... that the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire?
 * .. that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the UK after the captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £1000 from the club's coffers?
 * ... that the volcano Mount St. Helens is named after Alleyne FitzHerbert of Derby?
 * ... that John Cowper Powys, the writer, came from Derbyshire?

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