Duffield (/ˈdʌfiːld/) is a village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Derby. It is centred on the western bank of the...
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Duffield Castle was a Norman Castle in Duffield, Derbyshire. The site is a scheduled monument. It was on a rocky promontory facing the river, easily defended...
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up Duffield in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Duffield may refer to: Duffield, Derbyshire Duffield Castle, Derbyshire, a Norman castle in Duffield, Derbyshire...
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Duffield is a civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 40 listed buildings that are recorded in the National...
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Duffield, Derbyshire. It dates back to the first millennium, and is situated on the banks of the River Derwent to the south of Duffield, Derbyshire,...
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Louis Greatorex (category People from Duffield)
Halifax (2012–2020). His films include Layla (2024). Greatorex is from Duffield, Derbyshire, the son of an IT professional and an HR administrator. He has one...
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Tennis Club, Duffield, Derbyshire, England until 1960. In May 1882 the Duffield Lawn Tennis Club was founded. That year it established the Duffield LTC Open...
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Duffield Hall is a 17th-century country house situated in the Amber Valley, Derbyshire and the former headquarters of the Derbyshire Building Society....
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The Duffield Bank Railway was built by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood in the grounds of his house on a hillside overlooking Duffield, Derbyshire in 1874...
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Duffield Castle may refer to: Duffield Castle, Derbyshire, a Norman Castle in Duffield, Derbyshire Duffield Castle, North Yorkshire, in North Duffield...
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adopted a Romanian orphan, Ellie. Lloyd lived with his family in Duffield, Derbyshire, from which he regularly commuted a round trip of 270 miles (430 km)...
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Duffield War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II listed war memorial in Duffield, Derbyshire. The war memorial, which stands outside St Alkmund's church...
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Derbyshire Building Society (previously trading as The Derbyshire) was a UK building society based in Duffield, Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England...
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The Ecclesbourne School (category Secondary schools in Derbyshire)
academy status situated in Duffield, Derbyshire, England. Since opening in 1957 as a small county school in the grounds of Duffield Hall, The Ecclesbourne...
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Mid Derbyshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The Member of Parliament has been Jonathan Davies of the Labour...
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the Amber Valley district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is on the River Derwent, between Duffield and Belper on the A6 trunk road. Until the...
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John Heathcoat (category People from Duffield)
Heathcoat (7 August 1783 – 18 January 1861) was an English inventor from Duffield, Derbyshire. During his apprenticeship he made an improvement to the warp-loom...
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emerged in the 1300s and is derived from the villages of Duffield in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Hereditary surnames were first introduced in Britain in...
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father, who was master at Kimberworth Endowed School, started in Duffield, Derbyshire where his family moved in 1818. On Christmas Day of 1838 he married...
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part of it becoming Duffield Frith. In time the whole area was given to the Duchy of Lancaster. Meanwhile, the Forest of East Derbyshire covered the whole...
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lies about two miles to the north-east of Duffield, the parish of which it was a part, being within Duffield Frith. When the latter was seized by King...
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Arthur Sherwin (category Derbyshire cricketers)
24. Sherwin died in Duffield, Derbyshire at the age of 68. His brother, Charles, two years older, played one match for Derbyshire in the 1907 season....
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Albert Widdowson (category People from Duffield)
made one run. Widdowson was identified as a scorer for Derbyshire in 1927. He died in Duffield at the age of 74. British Census 1881 RG11 3380/65 p17...
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Everingham. However, in 1225 East Derbyshire was disafforested. It may be about this time that William de Ferrers II extended Duffield Frith to the east of the...
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Duffield Frith was, in medieval times, an area of Derbyshire in England, part of that bestowed upon Henry de Ferrers (or Ferrars) by King William, controlled...
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Listed buildings in England (section Derbyshire)
in Duffield, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Hazelwood, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Heanor and Loscoe Listed buildings in Holbrook, Derbyshire Listed...
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pioneered the use of 15 in (381 mm) gauge with his Duffield Bank Railway at his house at Duffield, Derbyshire in 1874. The narrow gauge railway, which had about...
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Duffield railway station serves the village of Duffield in Derbyshire, England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line from Derby to Leeds, 133 miles...
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in Duffield, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Hazelwood, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Heanor and Loscoe Listed buildings in Holbrook, Derbyshire Listed...
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economic historian. Ellen Annette McArthur was born on 19 June 1862 in Duffield, Derbyshire. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she later became...
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