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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRONFIELD , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:north-eastern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Derbyshire, See also:England, 6 m. S. of See also:Sheffield, on the Midland railway. Pop. (1901) 3809. It lies on the small See also:river See also:Drone, a tributary of the Rother, in a busy See also:industrial district in which are numerous See also:coal-mines, and there are See also:iron foundries and manufactures of tools and other iron and See also:steel goods. The See also:church of St See also:John the Baptist, with a lofty See also:spire, is a See also:good example of Decorated See also:work, with Perpendicular additions.

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