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Its subsidiaries include: Cumberland Estate Agents, and Borderway Finance. Currys plc — is a multinational electrical and telecommunications retail and services company. It was established in 2014 by the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse Group to form Dixons Carphone. Its headquarters is in London.
The River Gardens is a public park in Belper, in Derbyshire, England. Its history dates back to 1905, and it is listed Grade II* in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. [1] It has won a Green Flag Award. The park is owned and managed by Amber Valley Borough Council. [2]
Belper was the first place in the UK to get gas lighting, at a works erected by the Strutts at Milford. Demand was such that in 1850, the Belper Gas and Coke Company was formed, with a works in the present Goods Road. Electricity followed in 1922 from the Derby and Nottingham Electrical Power Company's works at Spondon. The first telephones ...
The estate was acquired by the Stanhope family in 1538. The earldom was created in 1742. The Gothic Revival castle was built from 1815 and is a Grade II* listed building. [24] The estate was sold in 1969 by William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington to Derbyshire County Council and the grounds are a public country park. [25] Earl of Scarsdale
Wyver is a locality within Belper civil parish, which is in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.The area takes up the western bank of the River Derwent just north of the former mills of Belper.
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The DE postcode area, also known as the Derby postcode area, [2] is a group of 23 postcode districts in central England, within 11 post towns.These cover south and central Derbyshire (including Derby, Alfreton, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Belper, Heanor, Ilkeston, Matlock, Ripley and Swadlincote), parts of east Staffordshire (including Burton upon Trent) and north-west Leicestershire, and very small ...
George Herbert Strutt (21 April 1854 – 17 May 1928), was a cotton mill owner and philanthropist from Belper in Derbyshire. Strutt became a High Sheriff . [ 1 ] He was a descendant of Jedediah Strutt .