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Did you know that the first oil-field proper in Britain (as opposed to the oil-shale found in the Scottish Midlands) was at Hardstoft near Clay Cross in Derbyshire? It was discovered by the Mexican Eagle Company in 1919. The first commercial oil-field in this country, however, was at Eakring near Newark, the find in the late 1930s large enough to be of strategic importance – and kept secret - in WWII.
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