Newbiggin is a village in
County Durham, in
England
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. Its population at the
2011 census was 146. It is situated on the north side of
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 b ...
, opposite
Holwick
Holwick is a small village in Teesdale, north-east England. Located in the Pennine hills, it consists of a few houses spread along a road in the pattern of a linear settlement. As the population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100, details ...
. An influx of
Derbyshire lead miners into the area in the late 18th century may have brought the name from
Biggin.
In February 2022 Robert Hooper, a hill farmer from the village, was cleared of charges of dangerous driving and criminal damage, at
Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
*Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham
*County Durham, an English county
* Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States
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Crown Court, after he used a
telehandler
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with forks to lift a car from a lane outside his farm, flip it and push it on its side on to the road outside.
References
Villages in County Durham
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