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Wolsingham
Wolsingham is a market town in Weardale, County Durham (district), County Durham, England. It is situated by the River Wear, between Crook, County Durham, Crook and Stanhope, County Durham, Stanhope. History Wolsingham sits at the confluence of the River Wear and Waskerley Beck. It is a small settlement and one of the first market towns in County Durham, potentially deriving its name from the legendary Germanic peoples, Germanic family the Waelsingas, or from the personal name "Wolfsige". The earliest known record of the town is to be found in Reginald of Durham's ''Life of Godric'' where it is stated that the saint lived there for almost two years about 1120 AD with Elric the hermit. Wolsingham was then a thriving community, holding land by servile tenure. There were shepherds, plough-makers, beekeepers, forest keepers, wood turners, carters, etc. They toiled for two purposes – producing corn and other foodstuffs for themselves and supplying the larder of the Auckland Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolsingham Grammar School
Wolsingham is a market town in Weardale, County Durham, England. It is situated by the River Wear, between Crook and Stanhope. History Wolsingham sits at the confluence of the River Wear and Waskerley Beck. It is a small settlement and one of the first market towns in County Durham, potentially deriving its name from the legendary Germanic family the Waelsingas, or from the personal name "Wolfsige". The earliest known record of the town is to be found in Reginald of Durham's ''Life of Godric'' where it is stated that the saint lived there for almost two years about 1120 AD with Elric the hermit. Wolsingham was then a thriving community, holding land by servile tenure. There were shepherds, plough-makers, beekeepers, forest keepers, wood turners, carters, etc. They toiled for two purposes – producing corn and other foodstuffs for themselves and supplying the larder of the Bishop's Castle. The bishop and his friends indulged in hawking, but hunting for red deer in the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolsingham Town Hall
Wolsingham Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Wolsingham, a town in County Durham, in England. It accommodates the local public library as well as the offices and meeting place of Wolsingham Parish Council. History The building was commissioned by a board of trustees formed for the purpose and financed by public subscription. The site selected for the new building was in the centre of the Market Place on land formerly owned by the Bishop of Durham. It was designed in the neoclassical style, built in rubble masonry was completed in 1824. The design of the structure originally involved a symmetrical main frontage of just one bay facing onto Front Street. The building was fenestrated by sash windows on both floors. There were quoins at the corners and an ashlar stone band between the floors. Internally, the principal rooms included a large news reading room. In 1856, the building was extended to the east to create a second bay, and, in 1869, it was still desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weardale Railway
The Weardale Railway is an independently owned British Single track (rail), single-track branch line heritage railway between and Stanhope. The railway began services in July 2004. The line was purchased by the Auckland Project in 2020 with a view to restarting regular passenger services. In 2021, a bid was submitted to the Restoring Your Railway fund. In October 2021, the Department for Transport allocated funding for the development of a business case. By 2024 progress appeared to have stalled, with the scrapping of the Restoring Your Railway fund. The railway originally ran from Bishop Auckland to Wearhead in County Durham, North-East England, a distance of , built in the 19th century to carry limestone from Eastgate, County Durham, Eastgate-in-Weardale, and provide passenger services to Weardale. Passenger services ceased in 1953, leaving only freight services to Eastgate until 1992. After the quarry's owner Lafarge (company), Lafarge moved to road transport in 1993, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolsingham School
Wolsingham School is a coeducational secondary school located in Wolsingham, County Durham, England. It was founded in 1614 as a boys' school. An early female student was Janet Taylor in the early 1800s. The school is situated just off the A689, and near the River Wear in the former district of Wear Valley. This is the former grammar school. In the past the lower site was the site for Key Stage 3, while the upper site was for Key Stage 4. This system no longer exists. History The school was founded on 19 June 1614 by William James who was the Bishop of Durham. The board of trustees included nine landowners who had all donated land to create the (then) boys' school. Each of the founding trustees was allowed to name two boys to be taught a basis education from the age of eight. In 1834 the master was the Reverend Philip Brownrigg who was the local curate and he lived in the master's house which was built by public subscription in about 1795. Wolsingham had two school buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weardale
Weardale is a dale, or valley, on the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, England. Large parts of Weardale fall within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) – the second-largest AONB in England and Wales. The upper dale is surrounded by high fells (up to O.D. at Burnhope Seat) and heather grouse moors. The River Wear flows through Weardale before reaching Bishop Auckland and then Durham, meeting the sea at Sunderland. The Wear Valley local government district covered the upper part of the dale, including Weardale, between 1974 and 2009, when it was abolished on County Durham's becoming a unitary authority. (From 1894 to 1974 there was a Weardale Rural District.) Upper Weardale is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Durham. The dale's principal settlements include St John's Chapel and the towns of Crook, Stanhope and Wolsingham. Local climate Weardale's winters are typically harsh and prolonged with regular snow, nowadays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope, County Durham
Stanhope is a market town and civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It lies on the River Wear between Eastgate and Frosterley, in the north-east of Weardale. The main A689 road over the Pennines is crossed by the B6278 between Barnard Castle and Shotley Bridge. In 2001 Stanhope had a population of 1,633, in 2019 an estimate of 1,627, and a figure of 1,602 in the 2011 census for the ONS built-up-area which includes Crawleyside. In 2011 the parish population was 4,581. Governance Stanhope parish is the largest parish area in England, at It has some land in common with the neighbouring Wolsingham civil parish. If Stanhope was a district it would be the 135th largest in England and would be 94th if only counting districts that are 2 tier thus excluding unitary authorities and similar, 2 ceremonial counties namely the City of London and Bristol cover a smaller area. On 31 December 1894 "Stanhope Urban" parish was formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Wear
The River Wear (, ) in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland. At long, it is one of the region's longest rivers. The Wear wends in a steep valley through the cathedral city of Durham and gives its name to Weardale in its upper reach and Wearside by its mouth. Etymology The origin behind the hydronym ''Wear'' is uncertain but is generally understood to be Celtic. The ''River Vedra'' on the Roman Map of Britain may very well be the River Wear. The name may be derived from Brittonic ''*wejr'' (<''*wẹ:drā''), which meant "a bend" (cf. Welsh ''-gwair-''). An alternative but very problematic etymology might involve ''*wẹ:d-r-'', from a lengthened form of the |
Crook, County Durham
Crook is a market town in the Durham County Council unitary authority and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is located on the edge of Weardale and sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to Weardale". Crook lies about south-west of Durham, England, Durham, north-west of Bishop Auckland and from Willington, County Durham, Willington. The A689 road from Durham leads up through Wolsingham and Stanhope, County Durham, Stanhope into the upper reaches of Weardale. Until 1974, the town was in Crook and Willington Urban District and had a civil parish, parish council. History Crook first appeared as an agricultural village around 1795 although its surrounding districts; Billy Row, Stanley, White Lea and Helmington Row, were established much earlier.The developmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Duckett
John Duckett (1613 – 7 September 1644) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. Life John Duckett was born at Underwinder, in the parish of Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, in 1613, the son of James and Francis Duckett. He was a relative of James Duckett who had been executed at Tyburn on 19 April 1601 for printing Catholic books. He was baptized on 24 February 1614 and educated at Sedbergh School. At the age of seventeen, he entered the English College, Douai; he was ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Cambrai in 1639 and was then sent to study for three years at the College of Arras in Paris.Camm, Bede. "Venerable John Duckett." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 23 April 2020 After Paris it came time to embark on the English mission, but on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weardale Iron And Coal Company
The Weardale Iron and Coal Company, established in the 1840s, produced iron and steel at Tow Law and Tudhoe in County Durham in England, where it also owned collieries. History The founder of the company, Charles Attwood (1791–1875), was born in Halesowen in the west midlands of England; his father and grandfather were involved in the iron industry of that area. His brothers Matthias Attwood and Thomas Attwood were bankers and politicians, and other brothers also had notable careers. Charles Attwood had other business interests during his career, and was a politician. The company, founded in 1845 as the Weardale Iron Company, was created to exploit iron ore in Weardale; leasing rights were obtained there in the manors of Stanhope and Wolsingham. Six blast furnaces were built at Tow Law in County Durham, and the company built a railway to transport the iron ore to the ironworks. The company became in 1846 the Weardale Iron and Coal Company, with Attwood as a managing partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Auckland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bishop Auckland is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in County Durham that is represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Sam Rushworth of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Constituency profile The constituency is located in an upland, western part of County Durham in the North East England, North East of England. The constituency includes as its major settlements the towns of Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Shildon, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Crook, County Durham, Crook, Tow Law, Stanhope, County Durham, Stanhope and Wolsingham, with their surrounding villages, dales and fields. The seat is named for the market town of Bishop Auckland which has a mixed modern and historic high street. It also includes the similarly sized Barnard Castle, together with large areas used for agriculture, particularly hill farming on the rolling landscape that cuts into the Pennine ... [...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] |
