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Derwent

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Derwent (dûr`wənt), river, c.60 mi (100 km) long, rising in the Pennines, Derbyshire, central England, and flowing SE past Derby to the River Trent. Reservoirs on its headwaters supply water to the cities of the Midlands.


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He spent long days playing about in garden and orchard, or on the banks of the Derwent, with his friends and brothers and his sister Dorothy.
The bay should rather be called an estuary, for it receives at its head the waters of the Derwent.
It was then that the distant towers of York, and the bloody streams of the Derwent,* beheld that direful
 
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