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Buxton

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Buxton, town (1991 pop. 19,502), Derbyshire, central England, on the Wye River in Peak District National Park. It is c.1,000 ft (305 m) high; the "old town" is on a hill above it. Limestone is quarried, but Buxton is primarily a year-round resort, with mineral springs and baths.
Buxton
a town in N England, in NW Derbyshire in the Peak District: thermal springs. Pop.: 20 836 (2001)


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Well, as I was saying, I was very ill and was ordered to Buxton for a month, with strict injunctions to do nothing whatever all the while that I was there.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Crisp was summoned from Buxton, and abruptly carried off her darling boy; but the idea, even, of such an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a great flutter in the breast of Miss Pinkerton, who would have sent away Miss Sharp but that she was bound to her under a forfeit, and who never could thoroughly believe the young lady's protestations that she had never exchanged a single word with Mr.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
I remember seeing those two lines wrote on a window at Buxton.
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