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Bonsall remains a working village that is involved in agriculture, heavy goods transport and a range of forms of information technology. However, most people in the village travel to cities such as Derby, Nottingham and
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in an article from 1886, they describe how during a renovation of a house in 'upper town', the builders lifted the boarded flooring to the lower ground to replace it with a new one, only to discover 29 horse skulls with all of their lower jaws missing under it, they hypothesised that these skulls
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in the village centre that may date from the Middle Ages. The ball on top was added in 1671. Bonsall applied for a market charter some three hundred years ago, but was rejected.
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frame-knitting workshops. A few 18th- and 19th-century frame-knitting workshop buildings survive. Many people also worked in the cotton spinning mills at
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