Clay Cross, a town in Derbyshire, 4½ miles S. of Chesterfield, the centre of a coal and iron district. The collieries here were begun by George Stephenson in 1838. Pop. (1891) 7143.
Clay Cross
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 284
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