The town is situated alongside the River Rother, adjacent to Eckington to the north, Barlborough to the east, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton civil parish to the south and Brimington to the west.

It continues to the east of Eckington and the west of Killamarsh, to arrive at the Rother Valley Country Park, where the course is largely man-made, as the park is part of a flood-defence scheme.

Moss Valley is home to the Eckington Woods and Bluebell Woods, the latter being a local term coined because of the quantity of bluebells which cover the woods in the springtime.

The coal mine near to where The Moss flows into the River Rother, Eckington Coal Mine ( a drift mine operated by Moorside Mining Co. Ltd .), is still open ; as is Sicklebrook Quarry in Sicklebrook ( near Troway ).

* Eckington is a former name of the village now called Ripe, East Sussex

Eckington is a town in North East Derbyshire, 7 miles ( 11 km ) northeast of Chesterfield and 8. 5 miles ( 14 km ) southeast of Sheffield on the border with South Yorkshire.

Eckington had a coal mine in the eastern part of the town, one of the very few in the country which is still operated.

The oldest school in Eckington is Camms CE Primary School.

Eckington School, is a large comprehensive school, attracting pupils from the surrounding areas of Killamarsh, Renishaw, Beighton, Ridgeway and Mosborough.

Eckington is represented by football team, AFC Dynamo, which competes in division one of the Sheffield & District Fair Play League ; they are the current ( 2012 ) holders of the SDFPL Cup, a title they also held in 2011.

Eckington is a small village near to the southern border of the English county of Worcestershire, according to the 2001 census it had a population of 1, 202.

The nearest towns to Eckington and also situated along the River Avon are Pershore which is north and Evesham north east.

The historic town of Tewkesbury is situated south west on the River Severn which river also runs through the nearest city of Worcester ( from Eckington ).

Eckington is renowned for its famous bridge, which is the subject of a poem by Arthur Quiller-Couch, its village cross and its Norman-period church.

Eckington is a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D. C. located south of the Prospect Hill and Glenwood Cemeteries.

Eckington is less than one mile ( 1. 6 km ) southeast of Howard University and exactly one mile north of the United States Capitol.

Eckington is also the home of the District of Columbia office of Sirius XM Radio.

Renishaw Hall is a country house in Renishaw in the parish of Eckington in Derbyshire, England.

D. H. Lawrence is said to have used the local village of Eckington and Renishaw Hall as inspiration for his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

There are many pubs in Beighton, The most popular being The Gypsy Queen built recently ( Now run by Hungry Horse ), The Fox on Skelton Lane, The George and Dragon, The Cumberland both being on Beighton's High street and finally The Belfry which is on Eckington Road within the Sothall estate, Featuring a bell extracted from a church.

The first three decades of the 20th century brought a boom in rowhouse construction to Eckington, as it did in many parts of the District.

Historically, Eckington an was ecclesiastical parish in the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.

He also held the posts of chancellor of Durham sede vacante, in 1311 and between 1316 and 1317, archdeacon of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln in 1320, prebendary of Bathwick in Wherwell Abbey, Hampshire from 1314 until 1320, rector of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford from 1320 until 1326, warden of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Oxford from 1326 until 1332, and rector sharing Eckington, Derbyshire from 1328 until 1332.

Harvington, Offenham, Evesham, Craycombe, Wyre, Pershore, Defford, Comberton, Birlingham, Eckington, Strensham and Tewkesbury.

Dronfield covers an area of and has as neighbours the villages and hamlets of Unstone, Holmesfield, Barlow, Apperknowle, Hundall and Eckington.

The Jeffcock family settled in Handsworth in the 17th century, having moved from Eckington, Derbyshire.

The first record of the family name occurs in the Court Rolls of the Manor of Eckington in 1351.

The river flows through the Moss Valley and through the villages of Geerlane, Birleyhay, Ford and Eckington.

Several areas of woodland are traversed, these include Coalpit Wood, Long Wood and Eckington Park. The main tributaries of The Moss are the Robin Brook, the Owler Car Brook, Sickle Brook, Troway Brook, Sloadlane Brook, and Ridgeway Brook.

The Moss flows into the River Rother in Eckington, Derbyshire, near Eckington Mine.

Nearby settlements include Charnock, Troway, Eckington, Mosborough, and Ridgeway.

Mountain bikers are a common sight in the area, and several trails are popular amongst local cyclists on both the Mosborough and the Eckington sides of the valley.

* Eckington ( Washington, D. C .), a neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

Ten Roman coins discovered in December 2008, near Eckington cemetery may be evidence of a Roman settlement or road in the area.

George Sitwell, son of George and Mary was baptised in 1601 in Eckington.

George's father died whilst he was a child but as an adult acquired the freehold of land in Eckington and exploited it by mining iron ore.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.

After it has reached terminal velocity, the time for the tape to travel a known distance is recorded.

Certain individual giants recorded later did fail to show a reasonable difference after maturity, but it is impossible to know whether this is due to captive conditions.

However, any such suggestion accounts for only some of the difficulties in hearing tone, or in developing a realistic attitude about tone, but not for the analytic difficulties that occur even when tone is meticulously recorded.

Some school systems provide written instructions to principals and teachers designating when certain information is to be recorded on cumulative record forms and explaining how the information is to be summarized and used.

This, too, is recorded against distance by a repeat run over the same track previously cut.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

" Alas ," he is recorded to have said, " surrounded by great warriors devoted to my cause, guarded night and day by them, I should have allowed them to do their job.

Persian poetry from Ibn Sina is recorded in various manuscripts and later anthologies such as Nozhat al-Majales.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3, 400 years.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

This has cooled it down to approximately 1 K, as deduced by astronomical observation, which is the lowest natural temperature ever recorded.

In the congress of 371 BC an altercation is recorded between him and the Theban general Epaminondas, and due to his influence Thebes was peremptorily excluded from the peace, and orders given for Cleombrotus to march against Thebes in 371 BC.

Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

Albertus is recorded as having made a mechanical automaton in the form of a brass head that would answer questions put to it.

In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting beside Æthelred in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the invading Danes led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia.

The fate of the other place is not recorded.