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Stainmore
Stainmore is a remote geographic area in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name is used for a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness of Cumbria, England, including the villages of North Stainmore and South Stainmore. The parish had a population of 253 in the 2001 census, increasing to 264 at the Census 2011. Stainmore Forest stretches further east into County Durham, towards Bowes. Geography Stainmore is drained by the River Belah to the west and, to the east, the River Balder, Deepdale Beck, and the River Greta. It is crossed by the Roman road from Bowes to Brough, now part of the A66, and formerly by the Stainmore Railway. Each of these lines of communication has made use of the relatively low broad saddle between the higher hills to north and south which is commonly referred to as the Stainmore Gap. The summit of the former railway is around above sea level, though the roads climb to slightly higher elevations. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Durham And Lancashire Union Railway
The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway (SD&LUR) built a railway line linking the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) at Tebay, via Barnard Castle, Stainmore Summit and Kirkby Stephen. The line opened in 1861 and became known as the Stainmore Line. The Stockton and Darlington absorbed the SD&LUR, and the Stockton and Darlington became a constituent of the North Eastern Railway. The line closed in stages between 1952 and 1962. A short section of the line at Kirkby Stephen East station has been restored by the Stainmore Railway Company. Origins When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR) was approved in June 1844 there were a number of schemes for a railway over the Pennines. The York & Carlisle Railway proposed a route from the East Coast Main Line (ECML) at Northallerton via Richmond, Barnard Castle, the Tees Valley, Stainmore and the Eden Valley to the L&CR at Clifton. A rival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stainmore Summit
Stainmore Summit is the Route summit, highest point on the trans-Pennines, Pennine South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway, also known as the ''Stainmore Railway'' in Northern England. Located on Stainmore between Barras railway station, Barras and Bowes railway station, Bowes stations, the railway over the summit was the highest in England at until its closure in 1962. The location was marked by a famous cast iron, cast-iron sign which is now preserved. It was formerly held at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum but has since moved to the New Hall at the Locomotion Museum, National Railway Museum in Shildon, County Durham (district), County Durham. Whilst there wasn't a station at Stainmore, trains did halt here to let relatives of the railway workers on and off the trains to enable them to get transported off the summit. The railway had several cottages at the summit. This pass is commonly referred to by geographers as the Stainmore Gap. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A66 Road
The A66 is a major road in Northern England, which in part follows the course of the Roman road from Scotch Corner to Penrith. It runs from east of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire to Workington in Cumbria. The road has been progressively improved with dual carriageway sections, but with stretches of single carriageway road. The road is set to be completely dualled between Scotch Corner and Penrith, with a £1.3 billion scheme being announced in March 2024. Route From its eastern terminus between Redcar and Middlesbrough it runs past Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington mainly as two-lane dual-carriageway and single carriageway past Darlington, becoming motorway standard as the A66(M) shortly before meeting junction 57 of the A1(M). It shares the A1(M) route south to Scotch Corner, from where it continues west across the Pennines, past Brough, Appleby, Kirkby Thore, Temple Sowerby and Penrith until it reaches Junction 40 of the M6 motorway at Skirsgill Interchange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brough, Cumbria
Brough (), sometimes known as Brough under Stainmore, is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Westmorland and the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, within the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, on the western fringe of the Pennines near Stainmore. The village is on the A66 trans-Pennine road, and the Swindale Beck, and is about south east of Appleby-in-Westmorland. Brough is situated north east of Kirkby Stephen and north east of Kendal on the A685. At the 2001 census it had a population of 680, increasing to 751 at the 2011 Census. This rose to 820 people at the 2021 Census. History The village is on the site of the Roman fort of Verterae ("The Forts"), on the northern leg of the Roman-era Watling Street, linking Luguvalium (Carlisle) with Eboracum (York) and points south. The area of the rectangular fort, which once occupied the land to the south of the Swindale Beck, is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Brough Castle was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowes Moor
Bowes Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the County Durham (district), County Durham district in south-west County Durham, England. It is an extensive area of moorland, most of it covered by blanket bog, which supports significant breeding populations of a number of Wader, wading birds. The SSSI is the subect of the ''Bowes Moor SSSI Site Restoration Plan, 1st January 2018 – 31st December 2028''. The Pennine Way National Trail passes through the area, as does the A66 road, which crosses Bowes Moor using the Stainmore Gap between Bowes and Stainmore. Bowes Moor sits on the river Greta and has changed very little since Roman times. Many Roman artifacts have been found here over the years, including a Roman Aqueduct (water supply), aqueduct. Site of Special Scientific Interest The Bowes Moor Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is designated for its "numerous and diverse moorland bird communities." The main habitat is blanket bog, and the SSSI designation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennines
The Pennines (), also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of highland, uplands mainly located in Northern England. Commonly described as the "Vertebral column, backbone of England" because of its length and position, the range runs from Derbyshire and Staffordshire in the North Midlands, north of the Midlands to Northumberland in North East England. From the River Tyne, Tyne Gap in the north, the range extends south through the North Pennines, Yorkshire Dales, South Pennines, and Peak District to end near the valley of the River Trent. The Border Moors & Forests, Border Moors and Cheviot Hills, which lie beyond the Tyne Gap, are included in some definitions of the range. The range is divided into two by the Aire Gap, a wide pass formed by the valleys of the rivers River Aire, Aire and River Ribble, Ribble. There are several Spur (topography), spurs off the main Pennine range east into Greater Manchester and Lancashire, comprising the Rossendale Valley, Rosse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Belah
The River Belah is a river in the county of Cumbria in England. Its name derives from the Old English word and means the "Roaring River". The Belah is formed by the confluence of several small streams or ''sikes'' draining most of north and south Stainmore close to the border with County Durham and Yorkshire. It flows north west off the hillside as Bleaberry Beck and tumbles over many waterfalls before meeting the Stow Gill Becks and becoming the Belah. It then flows in a north westerly direction past Oxenthwaite where the river is swollen by Argill Beck at Field Head and the Powbrand Beck near Thorney Scale. Having washed by Brough Sowerby, the Belah combines its waters with those of the River Eden near to the village of Great Musgrave. The Stainmore Railway crossed the river on the huge iron-girder lattice Belah Viaduct, before it was demolished in 1964. It was the highest bridge in England,The Crumlin Viaduct in Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Balder
The Balder is an English river that rises on the eastern slope of Stainmore Common in the Pennine Chain and flows eastwards for about , before joining the River Tees at Cotherstone. The River Balder is in County Durham, but until 1974, it was in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The head of the valley is a bleak moorland, with hills around it exceeding . the name is first recorded in the 13th century, and is thought to derive from an Old English personal name (''B(e)aldhere''), with possibly the river valley being named Baldersdale first, and the river being named later. For the first , the watercourse runs as Balder Beck, before meeting Black Beck and forming the River Balder proper at . The River Balder enters Balderhead Reservoir about from the source, at above sea level. It spills into two more reservoirs further down Baldersdale: Blackton Reservoir and Hury Reservoir. The scenery becomes gentler as it descends past Baldersdale Youth Hostel. The distinctive flat peak o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Askrigg Block
The Askrigg Block is the name applied by geologists to the crustal block forming a part of the Pennines of northern England and which is essentially coincident with the Yorkshire Dales. It is defined by the Dent Fault to the west and the Craven Fault System to the south whilst to the north it is separated from the Alston Block by the Stainmore Trough. It originated as a geological structure during the Carboniferous Period The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma. It is the fifth and penultimate perio ... as a major element in the Pennine Block & Basin Province.Edwards, W; Trotter, F M, The Pennines and Adjacent Areas, British Regional Geology (Third ed.), London: HMSO. Natural Environment Research Council (published 1954) References Geology of the Pennines Geology of North Yorkshire {{UK-geology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alston Block
The Alston Block is a term used by geologists to describe the geological structure of the North Pennines of northern England and which forms a part of the Pennine Block & Basin Province which originated during the Carboniferous period. It is defined by the Stublick and Ninety Fathom faults to the north, the Pennine Fault to the west and the Stainmore Trough to the south. It is in essence a horst underlain by the Weardale Granite which provides sufficient buoyancy to maintain this piece of the upper crust as an area of raised relief. To its west lies the Vale of Eden and to its north is the half-graben A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults. Rift and fault structure A rift is a region where the lithosphere ... of the Northumberland Trough.British Geological Survey. 1996, ''Tectonic Map of Britain, Ireland & adjacent areas'', Pharaoh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geological Structure Of Great Britain
The geological structure of Great Britain is complex, resulting as it does from a long and varied geological history spanning more than two billion years. This piece of the Earth's crust has experienced several episodes of mountain building or ' orogenies', each of which has added further complexity to the picture. A wide range of geological structures occur across Britain and include examples at a variety of scales of: * faults *thrust faults * folds * sedimentary basins *grabens ''and'' horsts *unconformities Our understanding of Britain's large-scale structure has been gained over many decades by simple geological field survey together with an increasing range of technological methods including gravity surveys, seismic surveys, aeromagnetic surveys and other forms of remote sensing. Terranes A useful approach to considering Britain's geological structure is to examine the various terranes from which it is composed. These are essentially continental fragments whose boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Regionally Important Geological / Geomorphological Sites (RIGS) In Cumbria
This is a list of the Regionally Important Geological / Geomorphological Sites RIGS in Cumbria. LGS sites are designated and archived through an on-going review process. The full current list is hosted by the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre. * Armathwaite Dyke * Banks Gate, North Stainmore * Belah Scar, Brough Sowerby * Bowderdale * Bullman Hills, North Pennines * Church Lane, Church Brough * Cocklock Scar, Kirkland * Coombe Clints, Armathwaite * Dufton Ghyll Woods, Appleby * Hags Bank, Alston Moor * High Cup Nick, Dufton * Howhill Quarry, Alston * Knock Pike, Flagdaw * Lacy's Caves, Little Salkeld * Langdale Beck, Howgills * Nateby West * Scale Beck, Gaythorne Plain, Orton * Shap Abbey * Smardale Bridge * Smardale Gill Limestone Quarry * Stenkrith Park, Kirkby Stephen * Wild Boar Fell, Mallerstang Mallerstang is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the extreme east of Cumbria, and, geographically, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
