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?