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Extracts can only be used with written permission of the FoMM Group
Extracts can only be used with written permission of the FoMM Group
Welcome to Mickleover Meadows website!
Mickleover Village
Mickleover church
Mickleover Hollow
In the 17th Century, it was a rural community of 400 people, but in the 19 th Century it grew as it became the home of some of the richer owners of the industry that had built up in Derby, this was due to the better roads and easier convenience of commuting. Growth was also affected by the building of the Pastures hospital in 1850. and the arrival of the railway in the 1870s. Major growth started in the 1950's with planned housing estates, the current population is approximately 18,000.
FoMM is a community group in the WildDerby partnership because wildlife benefits people
Site updated 14 Jan 2010
Below are internal Links to recently updated pages
In the future you will be able to spot the latest additions to the site from this page, also, we hope to make our site reflect more the experiences and discoveries of the members and friends of FoMM.
We will be showing FoMM friends photographs with reported ‘sighting’ text alongside. To assist us to do this more logically we now have web site pages which reflect the year with the seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Thus the pages will be as much a diary as a wildlife record It will take some time to get all this working so please be patient
One of our ambitions is to keep the meadows as the natural habitat of humankind, this it has been since the time of the first settlers in Mickleover, one obvious sign is the remains of the strip farming which covers the meadows. Thus humans have been and still are as relevant to the meadows as much as any other resident or flora.
We will be showing FoMM friends photographs with reported ‘sighting’ text alongside. To assist us to do this more logically we now have web site pages which reflect the year with the seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Thus the pages will be as much a diary as a wildlife record It will take some time to get all this working so please be patient
One of our ambitions is to keep the meadows as the natural habitat of humankind, this it has been since the time of the first settlers in Mickleover, one obvious sign is the remains of the strip farming which covers the meadows. Thus humans have been and still are as relevant to the meadows as much as any other resident or flora.