Tanfield is a former
mining village in
County Durham
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, England, near
Stanley
Stanley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
* ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film
* ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy
* ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short
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, and the location of
Tanfield Railway
The Tanfield Railway is a heritage railway in Gateshead and County Durham, England. Running on part of a former horse-drawn colliery wooden waggonway, later rope & horse, lastly rope & loco railway. It operates preserved industrial steam l ...
, the
Causey Arch
The Causey Arch is a bridge near Stanley in County Durham, northern England. It is the oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge in the world, and a key element of the industrial heritage of England. It carried an early wagonway (horse-drawn ...
and
Tanfield School
Tanfield School is a coeducational secondary school in Stanley, County Durham, England, by the border to Tanfield Lea. The school is part of the Eden Learning Trust and is a specialist science and engineering college.
History
Tanfield Lea H ...
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History
The village was first recorded in 1179 as Tamefeld, believed to be Old English for "field by the
River Team
The River Team is a tributary of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England.
Etymology
The name ''Team'' may have a Brittonic origin. The name may be from the Brittonic root ''tÄ-'', with a sense of "melting, thawing, dissolving", plus a nasal root d ...
", but it is mentioned in an account by
John of Hexham
John of Hexham (c. 1160 â 1209) was an English chronicler, known to us merely as the author of a work called the ''Historia XXV. annorum'', which continues the ''Historia regum'' attributed to Symeon of Durham, and contains an account of English ...
of the Scottish invasion of 1138. The village church is from the 10th century.
Economy
Collieries
* Tanfield Lea Colliery, Tanfield Lea. Closed 25 August 1962. Owners:- Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd; (1947) NCB. Location:- (Sheet 88) NZ188544, 54° 53' 2" N, 1° 42' 25" W, SW of Newcastle.
* Tanfield Moor Colliery, Tantobie. Opened before 1828. Closed Oct 1948. Owners:- Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd. Location:- (Sheet 88) NZ169545, 54° 53' 6" N, 1° 44' 12" W, SW of Newcastle.
* East Tanfield Colliery, Tantobie. Opened 1844. Closed January 1965. Owners: - James Joicey (from 1844), East Tanfield Colliery Co. Limited (from 1917), South Derwentside Coal Co. Limited (from 1929). National Coal Board (from 1947). Location: - (Sheet 88) NZ194552, 54° 53' 28" N, 1° 41' 51" W, SW of Newcastle
The village has the highest rate of people aged 16â74 who have never worked, the figure stands at 33.33 percent, in the whole of
England
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and
Wales
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Religious sites
The village church of
St. Margaret of Antioch dates back to 900 AD, but the present structure was built in the 18th century. It was the parish church of
Beamish Hall
Beamish Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now converted to a hotel, which stands in of grounds near the town of Stanley, County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The history of Beamish Hall can be traced back to the No ...
, former home to the Eden, Joicey and Shafto families. There is a Methodist church in
Tanfield Lea Tanfield may refer to:
People
*Charlie Tanfield (born 1996), British racing cyclist
*Elizabeth Tanfield (1585â1635), English poet and dramatist
*Francis Tanfield (1565â?), Proprietary Governor of the South Falkland colony in Newfoundland
*Lawr ...
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Notable people
Tanfield was the home of Tommy Armstrong (1848â1919), the "pit-man poet", whose grave is in the village cemetery.
References
* http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/t001.htm - Durham Mining Museum
Villages in County Durham
Mining in County Durham
History of County Durham
Stanley, County Durham
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