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unusual facts about Fairfield, Derbyshire



Apple Day

Cromford, near Matlock, Derbyshire are notorious apple promoters.

Assyrian genocide

A monument to the victims of the Assyrian genocide has been built in Fairfield in Australia, a suburb of Sydney where one in ten of the population is of Assyrian descent.

Benjamin Robinson

He began life as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir John Gell at Hopton, Derbyshire.

Bloor Homes

Bloor Homes is an Enlish housebuilder based in Ashby Road, Measham, Leicestershire, although it has a Derbyshire postcode (DE12 7JP).

Bobby Ball

Ball went to work in a factory as a welder and it was here that he met his future partner, Thomas Derbyshire (Tommy Cannon).

Charles Hastings

Sir Charles Abney-Hastings, 2nd Baronet (1792–1858), High Sheriff of Derbyshire and MP for Leicester, 1826–1831

Charles S. Drew

A hardcover version of Drew’s report of Indian attacks on settlers in the Oregon Territory was published by Ye Galleon Press of Fairfield, Washington in 1973.

Colour of My Soul

Rob Derbyshire is an experienced touring musician, having worked as keyboard player with legendary former Motown artist Edwin Starr, while the other group member and producer Paul 'Solomon' Mullings worked with reggae bands in the Midlands and was a guitarist in Pato Banton's band.

Creswell and Welbeck railway station

Creswell and Welbeck railway station is a former railway station in the village of Creswell, north eastern Derbyshire, England.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2010

In the 2010 County Championship, Derbyshire was in Division 2 and finished in ninth position.

Fairfield horseshoe

Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.

Fairfield, Stogursey

By 1870 Alexander Acland-Hood controlled the estate.

Fairfield, Waikato

Fairfield Bridge crosses the Waikato River and connects Fairfield with suburbs west of the river.

Fernwood, Greater Victoria

Fernwood is a neighbourhood near downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, bounded by the neighbourhoods of Jubilee, North Park, Fairfield, Downtown, Oaklands and Harris Green.

Frederik Klokker

He was released by Derbyshire following the 2009 season, but continued to feature in Minor counties cricket with Suffolk, making five Minor Counties Championship and four MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances.

Frisii

Tangible evidence of the existence of the Frisavones includes several inscriptions found in Britain, from Roman Manchester and from Melandra Castle near modern Glossop in Derbyshire.

George Beet

George Beet, Jr. (1904–1949), Derbyshire cricketer, son of George Beet, Sr.

Glenn Cummings

Cummings currently works for the Goodwill Hinckley School in Fairfield, Maine as President and Executive Director.

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke (c.1742-26 December 1774), of Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire, was a British Member of Parliament, representing Derbyshire.

Gold Selleck Silliman

The General's son Benjamin Silliman was born in a tavern, originally the home of Ebenezer Hawley in Trumbull, Connecticut, after his mother, Mary Silliman, fled Fairfield ahead of the invading British troops.

Guy Jackson

Jackson's brother Geoffrey Jackson and cousin, Anthony Jackson, also played cricket for Derbyshire.

Jackson played occasionally until the 1936 season, his final first-class appearance for Derbyshire being in July against the Indian tourists in a rain-affected draw.

I travelled among unknown men

Similarly, no insight can be gained from determining the exact geographical location of the 'springs of Dove'; in his youth, Wordsworth had visited springs of that name in Derbyshire, Patterdale and Yorkshire.

Ives House

Charles Ives House, Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County, Connecticut

James Dowdall

The Dowdalls of Louth originated at Dovedale in Derbyshire and became prominent in Ireland in the late Middle Ages.

James Melvin Scott

One of five children (one of whom died in infancy), he grew up in Fairfield, Missouri, seven miles south of Warsaw near Route 83.

Joseph Cupitt

He took one wicket in the match, that of future Test cricketer Claude Buckenham, though Derbyshire lost the match by an innings margin, in part thanks to a first-class best 277 runs from Charlie McGahey.

Leung Ying

Leung Ying (also known as Loy Yeung) was a Chinese mass murderer who, at the age of 29, killed 11 people and wounded another four on a farm near Fairfield, California on August 22, 1928, before escaping the scene.

Ludworth

Ludworth, Greater Manchester (historically in Derbyshire, after 1936 in Cheshire)

Maddingley Mine

In the early 1940s brown coal was mined and transported in large quantities by rail from the nearby Rowsley Station, with dedicated trains running between Maddingley and the Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM Siding) at Fairfield, Melbourne.

Michael Thomas Sadler

Michael Sadler, the son of James Sadler, was born in Snelston, Derbyshire, on 3 January 1780.

Mortimer Jordan High School

That streak carried over into the 2010 season, and ended at 59 games when Jordan lost to Angelo Rodriguez High School of Fairfield, California in the ESPN RISE/Nike Fastest to First Tournament in Huntington Beach, California on March 25, 2010.

National Computer Camps

There are locations at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where Dr. Zabinski is a professor of physics and engineering; Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia; and John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

North Derbyshire Chargers

Before the 2008 season started, it was decided that the club should merge with the newly formed North Derbyshire Chargers, who were based in the town of Eckington to prevent dilution of resource in the area.

Oak Apple Day

The Garland King who rides through the streets of Castleton, Derbyshire, at the head of a procession, completely disguised in a garland of flowers, which is later affixed to a pinnacle on the parish church tower, can have little connection with the Restoration, even though he dresses in Stuart costume.

P. G. Ashmore

Professor Philip George Ashmore, known as Sandy Ashmore, born Derbyshire, England, 5 May 1916, died 25 March 2002, was an English academic chemist and the first Professor of Physical Chemistry at UMIST, Manchester.

Pingle

The Pingle School, state comprehensive school in South Derbyshire, England

Richard de Grey

Richard, 1 Dec 1202-8 Sep 1271, was the eldest surviving son of Henry de Grey of Thurrock, an Essex landowner owning the manors of Codnor in Derbyshire and Grimston in Nottinghamshire; and Isolda de Bardolf.

Risley Park Lanx

The Risley Park Lanx is a large Roman silver dish (or lanx) that was discovered in 1729 in Risley Park, Derbyshire.

Robert Heath

From 1629 he was taking an entrepreneurial interest in the lead mines of Derbyshire, engaging Sir Cornelius Vermuyden as partner in a major drainage operation at Wirksworth, at the ore-rich Dovegang Rake.

Robin Buckston

He became captain of Derbyshire in the 1937 season when after their Championship win in the 1936 season, the club came third in the Championship.

Samuel Boteler Bristowe

After court sittings, Bristowe routinely left Nottingham on the 5.40pm Great Northern train to return to his home at West Hallam in Derbyshire, and on this occasion was followed unobserved by Arnemann, who bought a ticket to the same destination and followed the judge onto the platform.

Solar Pyramid

In 2002, it was announced that construction of the 40 metre high sculpture, designed by Richard Swain and Adam Walkden would be commenced at Poolsbrook, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Steven Blakeley

Steven Blakeley was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1982 and was brought up in the Derbyshire mining town of Bolsover.

Thomas Brierley

When the Duke of Devonshire was Provincial Grandmaster for Derbyshire, Thomas and some friends walked to Chatsworth House which sat in a large Deer Park laid out by Capability Brown where they were refused admittance as the Duke was home.

Toby Perkins

A former Chesterfield, Sheffield Tigers RUFC and Derbyshire Rugby Union player, he qualified as a rugby coach in 2006 and coached a junior team at Sheffield Tigers RUFC.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

War Widows Association of Great Britain

In the 2003 New Year Honours, Mary Brailsford of Chesterfield, Derbyshire was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) "for services to the War Widows Association of Great Britain".

William Snape

After his accident he was keen to pursue his acting career, and enrolled on a drama course in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, before starting a full-time course in October 2002.

William Stanhope Badcock

He was married, in 1822, to Selina, daughter of Sir Henry Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.


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