# nearbyuk

> nearbyuk is a local directory and information site for towns across the United Kingdom. It answers the everyday questions people have about the town they live in or are visiting, from which businesses are open nearby to how safe the area is and what is happening this week. It is free to read, takes no booking and no commission, and links straight through to whoever can actually help.

nearbyuk currently covers 1 town: Ely. It holds 1,010 business listings.

## Towns

- [Ely](https://nearbyuk.com/ely/): every business, category and local information page for Ely, 1,010 listings.

## Crime and safety

Recorded crime for each town, from the Home Office data.police.uk API, counted
inside the real town boundary rather than a radius, and compared with the county
it sits in, counted the same way.

- [How safe is Ely?](https://nearbyuk.com/ely/crime/): recorded crime in Ely, month by month, with the rate per 1,000 residents.

## Local information

- [Ely news](https://nearbyuk.com/ely/news/): recent headlines that name the town, dated, linked through Google News to the original.
- [Bin collections in Ely](https://nearbyuk.com/ely/bins/): which bin is collected when and what goes in each.
- [Transport and parking in Ely](https://nearbyuk.com/ely/transport/): railway stations, bus stops and every car park on one map.

## What this is not

nearbyuk is not a lead generation service: it sells no enquiries and takes no cut of any job. It is not a review site and hosts no reviews of its own. It does not cover the whole country thinly: it adds one town at a time and publishes a town only once its listings have been checked. It is not affiliated with any council, police force or the businesses it lists.

## Entity

- Brand: nearbyuk
- Operated by: Fixr Systems Ltd (FIXR SYSTEMS LIMITED), company number 15889598, England and Wales
- Public register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15889598
- Area served: United Kingdom, one town at a time. Today: Ely
- Access: free to read, no account required, no paywall

## Sources

- Business listings: Google Business Profile data, plus details published on the
  businesses' own websites.
- Recorded crime: Home Office, via data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Town boundaries: OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License.
- Bus stops and stations: Department for Transport (NaPTAN), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Bus routes and timetables: Department for Transport (Bus Open Data Service), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Local headlines: Google News, linking to each publisher, Headlines and links only.
- Bin collections: The district council's own waste pages, Facts restated in our own words, linked to the council.
- NHS organisation register: NHS England, Organisation Data Service, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Food hygiene ratings: Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Fuel Finder: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open data under the Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025.
- Station facts: National Rail Enquiries, via the Rail Data Marketplace, Rail Data Marketplace open products.
- Population: 2021 Census, via Wikidata.
- Town photographs: Wikimedia Commons, under the licence named on each page.

## Machine access

- Sitemap index: https://nearbyuk.com/sitemap-index.xml
- Crawler policy: https://nearbyuk.com/robots.txt
- Notes for AI assistants: https://nearbyuk.com/ai-instructions/

Last-Updated: 2026-09-11