Derbyshire

Derbyshire, a northern midland county of England, hilly in the N., undulating and pastoral in the S., and with coal-fields in the E.; abounds in minerals, and is more a manufacturing and mining county than an agricultural.

Population (circa 1900) given as 520,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)