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| | Duffield Castle. Lecture by William Bland at the Temperance Hall, Wirksworth on Tuesday January 11th 1887 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | During the occupation of this country by the Romans, which extended over a period of 400 years, the great road from St. David's Head to the mouth of the Tyne was made. |
 | | It entered this county on the west side, near Egginton, and went on to Little Chester, one mile from Derby, and thence by Breadsall Priory, Horsley Woodhouse, Denby, Morley Park, Pentrich, to Chesterfield, and on to the North. |
 | | This great road passed within a distance of two miles from the east bank of the Derwent, and there is good evidence that the lead mines at Wirksworth were worked in Roman times. |
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