Derbyshire A-Z

Name these places, people, and things from A-Z that are associated with the English county of Derbyshire.

When the answer is a person, the letter refers to their surname (if they have one).

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	Hint	Answer
A	Novelist who wrote there is 'no finer county in England than Derbyshire'	Jane Austen
B	Town home to a famous tart	Bakewell
C	Bonnie Scottish prince who turned around at Derby	Charles Edward Stuart
D	River that flows through Derby; a tributary of T	Derwent
E	Village famous for its plague quarantine	Eyam
F	Literary character who visited M	Victor Frankenstein
G	Former mill town in the far northwest	Glossop
H	Elizabethan stately home on the Nottinghamshire border	Hardwick Hall
I	Fourth largest settlement	Ilkeston
J	Castleton is famous for its caves and this mineral	Blue John
K	Highest point in the county; famous for a 'mass trespass'	Kinder Scout
L	Reservoir which was created by 'drowning' two villages	Ladybower
M	County town	Matlock
N	Anglo-Saxon name for Derby prior to the arrival of the Norse	Northworthy
O	Coton-in-the-Elms is the furthest point from the ocean in Britain
P	National park	Peak District
Q	Affluent village north of the suburb of Allestree	Quarndon
R	Village that was once the capital of the kingdom of Mercia	Repton
S	Notable feature of Chesterfield's St Mary's church	Crooked spire
T	River that runs through the south of the county	Trent
U	There is only one university in the county
V	Derby Arena is home to this kind of sports facility	Velodrome
W	Painter famous for their dramatic use of light	Joseph Wright
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Y	Regiment that fought at Gallipoli	Derbyshire Yeomanry
Z	Area of Derby north of California	New Zealand

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