Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/4

...that you can now listen to the way "Derbyshire" listen 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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