Heage
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thumb|Heage Windmill Heage is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ripley, in the Amber Valley district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is situated midway between Belper and Ripley. The village is in the Heage and Ambergate ward, which in the 2011 census had a population of 5,013.
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- Locality
- Amber Valley
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,698
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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- Population
- 5013
- Image
- Heage Windmill.JPG
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- Heage
- OS grid reference
- SK369505
- postal code
- DE56
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thumb|Heage Windmill Heage is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ripley, in the Amber Valley district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is situated midway between Belper and Ripley. The village is in the Heage and Ambergate ward, which in the 2011 census had a population of 5,013.
Heage is known for its six-sailed windmill; building work started in 1791 and it was first recorded as working in 1797. Each of the six sails weighs nearly one ton, and the tower is built from local sandstone.
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