#nenthead — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nenthead, aggregated by home.social.
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Villagers asked to volunteer gardens for dig https://www.allforgardening.com/1858515/villagers-asked-to-volunteer-gardens-for-dig/ #ArchaeologicalDig #garden #Nenthead #NorthPennines #RebeccaCadburySimmons
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Villagers asked to volunteer gardens for dig https://www.allforgardening.com/1858515/villagers-asked-to-volunteer-gardens-for-dig/ #ArchaeologicalDig #garden #Nenthead #NorthPennines #RebeccaCadburySimmons
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The Village That Invented the Welfare State — and Then Built Graceland
England’s highest village once changed how we think about workers. Then one man did it again, in miniature.
In 1825, the London Lead Company — run by Quakers with an unusual sense of moral duty — did something nobody had done before. They built Nenthead, in Cumbria, as the first p ...
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The Village That Invented the Welfare State — and Then Built Graceland
England’s highest village once changed how we think about workers. Then one man did it again, in miniature.
In 1825, the London Lead Company — run by Quakers with an unusual sense of moral duty — did something nobody had done before. They built Nenthead, in Cumbria, as the first p ...
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The Bishop’s Stones
Up on the bleak moorlands of the North Pennines today, straddling the borders of Durham, Cumbria, and Northumberland. A landscape of peat groughs and bogs thick with sphagnum moss, stirring memories—not necessarily unpleasant, just good times when I was fit enough to fly over this stuff without hesitating. Judging by the abundance of medicated grit trays and “vermin ...
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The Bishop’s Stones
Up on the bleak moorlands of the North Pennines today, straddling the borders of Durham, Cumbria, and Northumberland. A landscape of peat groughs and bogs thick with sphagnum moss, stirring memories—not necessarily unpleasant, just good times when I was fit enough to fly over this stuff without hesitating. Judging by the abundance of medicated grit trays and “vermin ...