Townfield is a village in
County Durham
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, in
England
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. It is situated just to the south of
Hunstanworth
Hunstanworth is a small village in County Durham, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles to the west of Consett, south-west of the village of Blanchland. The population of the village as taken at the 2011 Census was 116.
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and part of that parish, about west of
Consett
Consett is a town in County Durham, England, about south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne. It had a population of 27,394 in 2001 and an estimate of 25,812 in 2019.
History
Consett sits high on the edge of the Pennines. Its' name originates in the ...
.
The lands were owned by the
Hospital of St Giles which passed to
William Paget William Paget may refer to:
*William Paget, 1st Baron Paget (1506–1563), English statesman
* William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert (1572–1629), English colonist
*William Paget, 5th Baron Paget (1609–1678), English peer
*William Paget, ...
at the
dissolution
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. In 1545 Paget passed the lands to William Egliston and his descendants who held the lands until 1692 when the line ended. The land then passed to the Ord family of Newcastle.
Lead mining was an important industry from the 1650s onwards though most of the mining was centred at the nearby village of Ramshaw. The London Lead Company operated in the area from the 1700s to the 1850s when the Derwent Mining Company took over. By the 1950s mining had ceased.
Some of the buildings were designed by the architect
S.S. Teulon in the 1860s as was much of Hunstanworth.
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Villages in County Durham
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