Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/5

... that Herbert Strutt, a High Sheriff of Derbyshire, bought the Glensanda estate where his son disappeared and was later found as a clothed skeleton?
.. that Locko Preceptory is the only recorded Lazarite Preceptory in England?
... that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall School, in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
... that John Flamsteed of Derby became the first Astronomer Royal in 1675?
... that Shire Brook in Sheffield was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years.?

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