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The Freecycle Network (TFN) is a private, nonprofit organization registered in Arizona, US and is a charity in the United Kingdom. TFN coordinates a worldwide network of "gifting" groups to divert reusable goods from landfills .
Official language. English. Budget. £40,000 per year. Volunteers. Approx. 1000. Website. https://ilovefreegle.org. Freegle is a UK organisation that aims to increase reuse and reduce landfill by offering a free Internet -based service where people can give away and ask for things that would otherwise be thrown away.
Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a stone circle on Harthill Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands.It is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE.
Derby is the largest settlement, and Matlock is the county town. The county has an area of 2,625 km 2 (1,014 sq mi) and a population of 1,053,316. The east of the county is more densely populated than the west, and contains the county's largest settlements: Derby (261,400), Chesterfield (88,483), and Swadlincote (45,000).
Derwent Edge is a Millstone Grit escarpment that lies above the Upper Derwent Valley in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire. An Ordnance Survey column marks the highest point of the Edge at Back Tor (538 metres, 1765 feet). North of Back Tor the edge extends into Howden Edge and enters the county of South Yorkshire.
Middleton or Middleton-by-Wirksworth is an upland village and civil parish lying approximately one mile NNW of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. Middleton was, in 1086, a berewick (a supporting farm) of the town and manor of Wirksworth. Middleton was formerly known for its lead mines and high quality limestone quarries, including the underground ...
Rowsley ( / ˈroʊzli /) is a village on the A6 road in the English county of Derbyshire. The population as at the 2011 census was 507. [3] It is at the point where the River Wye flows into the River Derwent and prospered from mills on both. The border of the Peak District National Park runs through the village west of the River Wye and ...
The origins of Derbyshire. Derbyshire is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1048 in Manuscript D, known as the "Northern Recension". [2] Its creation appears to be a result of the dismemberment of the Mercian Kingdom 's province of the Peak District and the chronicle says, under 1048: “her wæs eac eorðstyrung on Kalendas Maias ...
England. Derbyshire. 53°20′49″N 1°44′24″W / . 53.347°N 1.74°W. / 53.347; -1.74. Hope is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. The population at the 2011 Census was 864. [1] It lies in the Hope Valley, at the point where Peakshole Water flows into the River Noe. To the north, Win Hill and Lose ...
Hungry Bentley is a deserted medieval village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, between Uttoxeter and Derby. The site is a scheduled monument [1] and has been called the best "depopulated settlement" in Derbyshire. [2]