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Recommended Links Promoting Derby and Derbyshire |
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The best
photo website available for the City of Derby and most of Derbyshire. Now with 360o panoramic photography |
Official Derby City Tourist Information Website Site is useful for basic visitor information. Only 6 shopping venues listed, including the Cattle Market, useful if you are buying livestock
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Discover Derbyshire and The Peak District This is a new website offering useful information, photographs and guides for walkers, tourists and anyone with an interest in Derbyshire and the many villages that go to make up the Peak District. |
(Derby Evening Telegraph)
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If you want to know what's happening in Derby and do not agree with the city council's point of view, then this is the site for you. Also provides useful information about contacting councillors.
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For local history and family history research This is a website full of ghost stories provided by local people, plus a a lot of historical facts about Derby's more grisly past
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(Parks Feature) BBCi - BBC Radio Derby |
A website offering historical facts and links concerning Derby |
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A fascinating theory that the area now covered by Derby was underwater at the time the Romans arrived. By Brian Nash |
YOUR GUIDE TO FINDING GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES & INFORMATION ONLINE |
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A Derby Community Website Lots of useful and interesting information about Derby and Derbyshire
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Derby Evening Telegraph Columnist, Jim Brennan's, web site. A quest to link up with all the other Derbys World-wide. |
If any links are broken or fail to connect, please contact us and let us know
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Spartacus School Net - Derby Web Pages Web pages offering valuable historical information about the town's origins and its industry, including: the wool, silk and railway industries. There is also a lot of information about 18th/19th century working and housing conditions, child labour and social conditions/social reform. |
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For useful information on Tourism and Accommodation |
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Large collection of old and new local photographs |
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This is a very in-depth look at the history of Wirksworth and surrounding villages from 1600 AD to 1900 AD with over 480,000 records, births deaths, marriages and court cases. Also a good collection of old photos of people and places - highly recommended for any serious researcher |
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Influential American landscape architect, A. J. Downing visited the Arboretum in 1850 and praised the horticultural excellence and neatness of the grounds. Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park, New York (1858-77), arrived in 1859 on his third trip to Europe. (The Central Park commission had sent him abroad to study the design and administration of parks). |
Bushnell Park, Hartford Connecticut (USA) (Frederick Law Olmstead's Home Town) America's oldest park |
Department of English Alan
Rauch |
Keepers
Of Trees |
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Cemetery Loudon's "last resting place" |
working with the Arboretum Project |
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Derby Arboretum web site does not accept responsibility for the content of any of the above listed web sites. |
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