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Ilkeston

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Ilkeston (ĭl`kĕstən), town (1991 pop. 34,683), Derbyshire, central England. Iron and coal mines lie to the south. Rayon, lace, hosiery, and iron goods are manufactured. Ilkeston is mentioned in the Domesday Book Domesday Book (d
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. Eastwood, a nearby mining village, is the birthplace of D. H. Lawrence Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert Lawrence), 1885–1930, English author, one of the primary shapers of 20th-century fiction.

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The son of a Nottingham coal miner, Lawrence was a sickly child, devoted to his refined but domineering mother, who
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, and many of his novels are set in the area.
Ilkeston
a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop.: 37 270 (2001)


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