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MELBOURNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MELBOURNE  , a

market
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town in the
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southern
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parliamentary division of
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Derbyshire, England, 8 m . S.S.E. of Derby, on the Midland railway . Pop . (1901), 3580 . It lies in an undulating
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district on a small southern tributary of the Trent, from which it is about 2 M. distant . The church of St Michael is a
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fine example of Norman
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work, with certain
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late details, having clerestoried
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nave, chancel and aisles, with central and two western towers . Melbourne Hall, a
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building of the time of William III., surrounded by formal Dutch gardens, stands in a domain owned at an early date by the bishops of Carlisle, whose tithe
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barn remains near the church . They obtained the
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manor in 1133 . In 1311 Robert de Holland fortified a mansion here, and in 1327 this castle belonged to Henry,
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earl of Lancaster; but it was dismantled in 146o, and little more than the site is now traceable . The title of Viscount Melbourne was taken from this town . There are manufactures of
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silk, and boots and shoes .

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