But when you’re next having a chat down the boozer or around the kitchen table and chewing the fat about our area, what interesting facts would you use.
Here we have 13 interersting facts that might just help you out. Take a look and see how many you know and share your facts with us via our social media channels.
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5. Interesting facts about area
Robert Keyes, who was a member of the group which planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was born in Staveley. Photo: Other
6. Interesting facts about area
The Battle of Chesterfield took place in and around the town on May 15, 1266. It involved baronial and royalist forces. Historical literature states that the baronial leaders – including Baldwin Wake, the Lord of Chesterfield, and Ferrers, the Earl of Derby – clashed with royalist forces led by Henry of Almain, nephew to Henry III. The royalists used wagons to gain entry to the town. A bloody battle ensued and the royalist forces eventually won. Wake escaped the fighting and joined other disinherited barons at the Isle of Axholme. Ferrers was captured, taken ‘in irons’ to London and 'totally disinherited' later that year Photo: JPIMedia
7. Interesting facts about area
Barrow Hill Roundhouse is the last surviving railway roundhouse in the UK with an operational turntable Photo: National World
8. Interesting facts about area
In 1688, three conspirators met at Revolution House, a pretty thatched cottage in Old Whittington, to plan what would become the Glorious Revolution, an invitation to William of Orange to take the throne of England in place of James II Photo: National World