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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.
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).
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.
53.23633°N 1.4292058°W. / 53.23633; -1.4292058. Chesterfield is a market and industrial town in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. [2] It is 24 miles (39 km) north of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) south of Sheffield at the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Hipper.
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 ...
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.
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]
Cressbrook Dale (also called Ravensdale) is a dry carboniferous limestone gorge near Bakewell, Derbyshire, in the Peak District of England. The dale is cut into a plateau of farmland and lies to the south east of the village of Litton .
Derbyshire Dales ( / ˈdɑːrbiʃɪər, - ʃər / DAR-bee-sheer, -shər) is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The district was created in 1974 as West Derbyshire; the name was changed to Derbyshire Dales in 1987. The council is based in the town of Matlock, and the district also includes the towns of Ashbourne, Bakewell ...