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Chesterfield: Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Chesterfield: Church of St. Mary and All Saints The crooked spire of the Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.

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Chesterfield, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England, at the junction of the Rivers Rother and Hipper. The borough comprises the town of Chesterfield and surrounding areas, including the town of Staveley. Archaeological excavations have confirmed the extent of Roman military and civil occupation near the Rother, and the Roman road from the south, Rykneld Street, bears a pre-Roman name. The ancient borough and market town received boosts to industrialization following the construction of the canal from Chesterfield to the River Trent (1777) and the Midland Railway (1841). George Stephenson, locomotive maker and railway engineer, lived ...(100 of 201 words)

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