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Bridgehill
Bridgehill is an area of Consett in County Durham County Durham, officially simply Durham, is a ceremonial county in North East England.UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. The county borders Northumberland and Tyne an ..., England. It is situated near Benfieldside, Blackhill, Shotley Grove, and the River Derwent. References External links Villages in County Durham Consett {{Durham-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benfieldside
Benfieldside is a settlement in County Durham, England. Although not a village in its own right (ecclesiastically it incorporates Shotley Bridge, Bridgehill and much of Blackhill), it is signposted and locally known. The name 'Benfieldside' survives in Benfieldside Road, a school of that name, the local tennis club and the church. Its post office no longer exists, though one remains in the village of Shotley Bridge. The Parish Church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert and is on Church Bank. The area is directly to the north of Consett, to which it is effectively attached. Governance It is a ward of Consett with a population taken at the 2011 census of 6,637. Anlaby was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Lanchester, in 1866 Benfieldside became a separate civil parish, in 1894 Benfieldside became an urban district, on 1 April 1937 the parish and urban district were abolished and merged with Consett. In 1931 the parish had a population of 9193. It is in the unparished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking Over Bridgehill - Geograph
Looking is the act of intentionally focusing visual perception on someone or something, for the purpose of obtaining information, and possibly to convey interest or another sentiment. A large number of troponyms exist to describe variations of looking at things, with prominent examples including the verbs "stare, gaze, gape, gawp, gawk, goggle, glare, glimpse, glance, peek, peep, peer, squint, leer, gloat, and ogle".Anne Poch Higueras and Isabel Verdaguer Clavera, "The rise of new meanings: A historical journey through English ways of ''looking at''", in Javier E. Díaz Vera, ed., ''A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics'', Volume 141 (2002), p. 563-572. Additional terms with nuanced meanings include viewing, Madeline Harrison Caviness, ''Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy'' (2001), p. 18. watching,John Mowitt, ''Sounds: The Ambient Humanities'' (2015), p. 3. eyeing,Charles John Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consett
Consett is a town in the County Durham (district), County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of County Durham, 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 Old English ''Cunecesheafod'' (''heafod'' means headland, the meaning of ''cunec'' is less clear but is thought to derive from the Brittonic languages, Brittonic ''conyge'' or "hill"), first recorded in the 13th century. In 1841, it was a village community of only 145, but it was about to become a Boomtown, boom town: below the ground were Bituminous coal#Coking coal, coking coal and blackband iron ore, and nearby was limestone. These three ingredients were needed for blast furnaces to produce pig iron, iron and steelmaking, steel. The town is perched on the steep eastern bank of the River Derwent, North East England, River Derwent and owes its origins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Durham
County Durham, officially simply Durham, is a ceremonial county in North East England.UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. The county borders Northumberland and Tyne and Wear to the north, the North Sea to the east, North Yorkshire to the south, and Cumbria to the west. The largest settlement is Darlington. The county has an area of and a population of . The latter is concentrated in the east; the south-east is part of the Teesside urban area, which extends into North Yorkshire. After Darlington, the largest settlements are Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, and Durham, England, Durham. For Local government in England, local government purposes the county consists of the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas of County Durham (district), County Durham, Borough of Darlington, Darlington, Borough of Hartlepool, Hartlepool, and part of Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees. Durham Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shotley Grove
Shotley Grove is a small settlement on the River Derwent, North East England, river Derwent, about 1 mile upstream of Shotley Bridge in County Durham, England and two miles downstream from Allensford. Today Shotley Grove is a pleasant rural idyll on the outskirts of Shotley Bridge, but in the past it was a vibrant part of early industrial of England. The Derwent valley played an important part in the industrialisation of the North, where the fast flowing river provided motive power to the emerging coal, lead and iron industries. German settlers It is believed Shotley Bridge was established in the early 17th century by a group of German sword makers. Robert Surtees (antiquarian), Robert Surtees. writing in 1820 states, At Shotley-Bridge a colony of German Sword-cutlers, who fled from their own country for the sake of religious liberty, established themselves about the reign of King William III, King William. These quiet settlers, who brought with them habits of industry, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
