Barnard Castle Market Cross (also known as the Butter Market) in the

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Barnard Castle Barnard Castle (, ) is a market town on the north bank of the River Tees, in County Durham, Northern England. The town is named after and built around a medieval castle ruin. The town's Bowes Museum's has an 18th-century Silver Swan automato ...

Teesdale Teesdale is a dale, or valley, in Northern England. The dale is in the River Tees’s drainage basin, most water flows stem from or converge into said river, including the Skerne and Leven. Upper Teesdale, more commonly just Teesdale, falls ...

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, England, was built in 1747. It is a Grade I

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.Market Cross, Barnard Castle
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File:Barnard Castle's market place, Durham (O50081).jpg, An 1893 view File:The Butter Market, Barnard Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1046942.jpg, Close up File:The Bank, Barnard Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1047862.jpg, From the arcaded shelter

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Market Cross
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''Market Cross, Barnard Castle, County Durham'' (Cavan Corrigan)
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