Places to see in ( Bishop Auckland - UK )
Places to see in ( Bishop Auckland - UK )
Bishop Auckland is a market town and civil parish in County Durham in north east England. Bishop Auckland is located about 12 miles northwest of Darlington and 12 miles southwest of Durham at the confluence of the River Wear with its tributary the River Gaunless.
Much of the Bishop Auckland early history surrounds the bishops of Durham and the establishment of a hunting lodge, which later became the main residence of the Bishops of Durham. This link with the Bishops of Durham is reflected in the first part of the town's name.
During the Industrial Revolution, Bishop Auckland grew rapidly as coal mining took hold as an important industry. The subsequent decline of the coal mining industry in the late twentieth century has been blamed for a fall in the town's fortunes in other sectors. Today, the largest sector of employment in the town of Bishop Auckland is manufacturing.
Since 1 April 2009, the town's local government has come from the Durham County Council Unitary Authority. The unitary authority replaced the previous Wear Valley District Council and Durham County Council. Bishop Auckland is located in the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency. The town has a town-twinning with the French town of Ivry-sur-Seine.
Bishop Auckland is located about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Darlington and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Durham. The town is served by Bishop Auckland railway station, which marks the point where the Tees Valley Line becomes the Weardale Railway. The town is not served directly by any motorways. Notable wards include Cockton Hill, Woodhouse Close, and Henknowle. Additionally, once neighbouring villages such as South Church, Tindale Crescent, St Helen Auckland, and West Auckland now more or less merge seamlessly into the town.
The town has a number of Grade I listed buildings. The grounds of Auckland Castle alone contain seven such structures. Additionally Escomb Saxon Church, St Andrew's parish church, St Helen's church, St Helen Hall, West Auckland Manor House, the East Deanery and the 14th century Bishop Skirlaw bridge are all Grade I listed. Other notable buildings include the town hall, a Victorian railway viaduct and Binchester Roman fort.
The town has links with the birth of the railways, with the original 1825 route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway passing through West Auckland and Timothy Hackworth, a well-known locomotive builder, built steam locomotives in the neighbouring town of Shildon. Today, Bishop Auckland railway station still provides passenger services being located at the end of the Wear Valley Line. Since May 2010 it has been re-connected with the Weardale Railway which provides passenger services up the valley to Stanhope.
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Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2019
Masterchef's Gregg Wallace, Coronation Street's Jennie McAlpine, TV presenters Angellica Bell and Stefan Gates, Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Briony May Williams, the Crabstock Boys, and MasterChef champion Kenny Tutt wax lyrical about Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2019.
The 14th annual festival saw a record 29,000 food fans descend on the County Durham market town for a two-day celebration of the region's tastiest produce.
BBC MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace said Bishop Auckland may be one of the nicest, friendliest places I've been.
You have got some cracking food out there, he added.
Actress and restauranteur Jennie McAlpine, best known for playing Fiz in Coronation Street, said: These festival are great because its local producers altogether and there is a really lovely sense of community.
Cllr Simon Henig, our Leader, said: Bishop Auckland Food Festival has really put our county on the culinary map and shines a light on the brilliant producers we have here.
It also attracts thousands of people into Bishop Auckland, which boosts the local economy and helps to promote the other fantastic attractions in the area.
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Bishop Auckland Town Hall | £1.5 million refurbishment to create culture hub
Work to transform Bishop Auckland Town Hall into a thriving cultural hub begins in autumn 2019.
Durham County Council is investing £1.5 million into refurbishing and redefining the historic venue, with an improved layout and modern facilities allowing for a more enticing programme of activities and events.
To allow the work to take place, the building will close from Saturday 31 August 2019 until spring 2020.
Cllr Joy Allen, our Cabinet member for transformation, culture and tourism , said: By improving facilities and staging a wider variety of events, the new look Bishop Auckland Town Hall will provide enriching and inspirational experiences for local people of all ages.
It will also attract people from outside of the area, boosting the profits of the venue and other town centre businesses, and complementing events such as Kynren and the multi-million-pound conservation of Auckland Castle.
Improvements will include the creation of a new café, bar and contemporary art gallery space on the ground floor, as well as enhanced library facilities. The auditorium will also be revamped to include more comfortable seating, and the cinema will become fully digitised, allowing popular blockbusters to be shown as well as live screenings, theatrical productions, comedy nights and lectures.
The new gallery space will continue to provide a focal point for works by local artist Tom McGuinness and will also provide a permanent home for the Durham Miners' Gala mural by Norman Cornish, currently on display in County Hall.
Alternative meeting places have already been secured for groups that meet in the hall and arrangements have been made to ensure residents can continue to access library services during the closure. This includes the creation of a temporary library at No.42, The Auckland Project's multiuse space at the opposite side of the Market Place.
Library facilities at No.42 will be open from Wednesday 4 September. Opening hours will be 10am to 5pm on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There will be no public computers at No.42, but PC access will be available at Coundon, Shildon, Woodhouse Close and Spennymoor Libraries, which are all accessible by public transport.
Woodhouse Close Library, in Bishop Auckland, will also operate extended opening hours during the closure. Opening hours will be: Monday 9.30am to 7pm, Tuesday 9.30am to 6pm, Thursday 9.30am to 5pm and 9.30am to 12.30pm on Saturday.
Find out more at bishopaucklandtownhall.org.uk
Places to see in ( Newton Aycliffe - UK )
Places to see in ( Newton Aycliffe - UK )
Newton Aycliffe is a town in County Durham, England. Founded in 1947 under the New Towns Act of 1946, the town sits about five miles to the north of Darlington and ten miles to the south of the city of Durham. It is the oldest new town in the north of England, and together with the bordering Aycliffe Village (to the south) and the north part of School Aycliffe (to the west), forms the civil parish of Great Aycliffe.
At the 2001 census, Great Aycliffe had a population of 26,385, although in 2007 Great Aycliffe Town Council reported this had risen to 29,000. It is the largest town within the Sedgefield constituency. Within a radius of 10 miles (16 km) are several towns and villages including Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Shildon and Heighington. To the south of the town is the village of Aycliffe. Newton comes from 'New Town'. Aycliffe Village is near to the A1(M) junction with the A167 (former A1).
On the edge of the town is the Bishop Auckland to Darlington railway branch line which is part of the 1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway. George Stephenson's steam locomotive Locomotion No 1 was placed on the rails close to Newton Aycliffe near to where Heighington station is. The Great North Road passed (A1) through the town until 1969.
The original Woodham was a medieval village, although apart from a few low mound earthworks (on private land) there is no trace of this original village. It was located on the northern side of the Woodham Burn stream and to the East of the A167 that cuts through the site in a north-south direction.
There are no streets in Newton Aycliffe (no places of residence with the suffix 'street'.). The main road which runs through the centre of the town is 'Central Avenue'. There are many Roads, Closes, Crescents and even a Parade. In the older parts of the town the streets are named after Bishops of Durham and Saints: Van Mildert (road); St. Aidan's (walk); Biscop (Crescent). Some are named after prominent local families such as Shafto (way), Eden (road), and Bowes (Road) for example. Some are even named after the movers and shakers of the New Town Movement such as Lord Lewis Silkin (Silkin Way) and Lord Beveridge (Beveridge Way).
The A167 (old A1) is the main road to the town, it runs to Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (30 miles) in the north and Darlington (8 miles) and Northallerton in the south. The A1(M) is near to the town and runs to Edinburgh in the north and London to the south, it provides as an alternative route to Durham and Newcastle in the north. The A689 is also near the town and it runs to Bishop Auckland in the west and Hartlepool and Teesside in the east.
The Newton Aycliffe railway station, which is on the Tees Valley Line, has train services provided by Northern to Bishop Auckland and Saltburn. There are connections to East Coast services to Edinburgh and London at Darlington, connections to Grand Central services to Northallerton, York and London at Eaglescliffe, and connections to Northern Rail services to Hartlepool, Sunderland and Newcastle at Thornaby.
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Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2017
Chef Rosemary Shrager, traders and families look back at all the delicious food and drink that thousands of visitors enjoyed at an amazing Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2017 #BAFF17
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Exploring Darlington, County Durham, England - 8 August, 2019
Views around the County Durham town of Darlington, including the architecture, infrastructure, streets, attractions and cultural sites.
I've just added a new film to my Tourism: England: County Durham playlist, here: of around the County Durham town of Darlington, including the architecture, infrastructure, streets, attractions and cultural sites.
Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England, the town lies on the River Skerne, a tributary of the River Tees. The town is administered as part of the Borough of Darlington. To read more about Darlington, click here: .
The film begins with the approach into Darlington Railway Station from the North. Within the film, the following sites andlocations are identified: Darlington Railway Station, Park Lane, Victoria Road, River Skerne, St. Cuthbert's Way, Lead Yard Bridge, Parish Church of St. Cuthbert, Church Row, Darlington Market Square, The Pennyweight, Bakehouse Hill, East Row, Tubwell Row, Darlington Covered Market, West Row, High Row Steps, Darlington Clock Tower, High Row, Prebend Row, Barclay's Bank, Prospect Place, Joseph Pease statue, Bondgate, Skinnergate, Duke Street, Blackwellgate, Grange Road, Coniscliffe Road, South Arden Street, Beaumont Street West, Beaumont Street, Houndgate, Pease House, Bull Wynd, Horsemarket, Hole in the Wall, Feethams, Darlington Town Hall and the A167 Roundabout.
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Places to see in ( Crook - UK )
Places to see in ( Crook - UK )
Crook is a historic market town in County Durham, in the North East of England. Located a couple of miles north of the River Wear, Crook lies about 9 miles south-west of the historic city of Durham and 5 miles north-west of Bishop Auckland.The A690 road from Durham turns into the A689 leading up through Wolsingham and Stanhope into the scenic upper reaches of Weardale (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). Located on the edge of Weardale, Crook is consequently sometimes referred to as the Gateway to Weardale.
The centre of Crook, a designated conservation area, features a good variety of shops and businesses with the market held on Tuesdays and Saturdays. There are two prominent churches, the centrally located St Catherine's CE and Our Lady Immaculate & St Cuthbert's RC on Church Hill. On top of the hills to the east sits Crook Golf Club, its challenging 18 hole course offering spectacular views of the local countryside. For a town of its size Crook also features a good selection of pubs, cafes and restaurants. Crook is the 10th largest settlement in County Durham and the 35th largest in the North East of England as of 2016.
Crook first appeared as an agricultural village around 1795 although its surrounding districts – Billy Row, Stanley, White Lea, Roddymoor and Helmington Row – were established much earlier. In these days Crook was predominantly farmland; however, it also had an Inn and a blacksmith shop, consequently the primary field of employment was within the agricultural industry.
Crook has a famous amateur football team, Crook Town F.C.. Crook Town have won the FA Amateur Cup five times, most recently beating Enfield F.C. in 1964, before the cup was abolished in 1974. This record is second only to Crook's near neighbours, Bishop Auckland F.C.. The club have also reached the third round of the FA Cup and formed a key role in the development of FC Barcelona, playing a number of friendly matches in the 1910s and 1920s.
Crook has a backdrop of traditional and modern buildings. The tallest building in the town is the Council Building. It has 5 floors and at about 100 ft, it is a prominent feature of the Crook skyline. However, the council building is dwarfed by Crook's surrounding hills, which completely surround the town except on the south side. The tallest stands at 300 metres above the town, about 980 ft. The highest point in the town is on West Road where the height is 210 metres (about 690 ft). Approximately 2 miles to the west of Crook on the A689 towards Wolsingham and Weardale, 400 yards past the roundabout junction with the A68, is the surviving World War II Harperley POW Camp 93, a Scheduled Ancient Monument within English Heritage.
Crook hosts various annual events including Crook Carnival, Crook Community Christmas Event and the Crookfest music festival. Crook Carnival is held in early July and features a parade, rides, stalls and live music. Crook Community Christmas Event held at the end of November also features a parade and the switching on of the town's Christmas lights.
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Bishop Auckland v Consett 21st October 2017 3pm Kick Off Highlights
Bishop Auckland v Consett 21st October 2017 3pm Kick Off Highlights
Consett v Bishop Auckland 5th August 2017 FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Highlights
Consett AFC v Bishop Auckland FC 5th August 2017 FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Highlights
Places to see in ( Spennymoor - UK )
Places to see in ( Spennymoor - UK )
Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. The town was founded over 160 years ago. The Town Council area, which includes the villages of Kirk Merrington, Middlestone Moor, Byers Green and Tudhoe, has a population of approximately 20,000.
The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). The origin of the name remains somewhat uncertain – some believe it to be derived from the Latin Spina which means a thorn (possibly from the Roman influence at Binchester) and Mor which was the Anglo-Saxon word for a moor. C.E. Jackson, in his Place Names of Durham, 1916, suggests a Scandinavian Spaan meaning shingle-hut and Anglo-Saxon combination involving mar – Spennymoor being the moor called after the shingle-hut erected thereon.
When, in 1894, Spennymoor and its adjacent villages achieved a measure of self-government on the Spennymoor Urban District Council, the new authority found itself facing a legacy of poor housing. With few exceptions, the housing situation was little better than when Dodd had described the houses as more like piggeries. In 1874 the then Local Government Board had reported: Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor.
Dating from 1183, the Whitworth Hall estate was owned by and home to the Shafto family for over 300 years, including County Durham MP Bonnie Bobby Shafto, made famous by the well known ballad and nursery rhyme. It is now the site of Whitworth Hall Hotel and the deer park for which the estate is famed is still well tended, as is the walled garden.
A local arts community founded in the 1930s by Bill & Betty Farrell with the aid of the Pilgrim Trust, To encourage tolerant neighbourliness and voluntary social services and give its members opportunities for increasing their knowledge, widening their interests, and cultivating their creative powers in a friendly atmosphere. The Settlement was home to the town's first library, and amongst famous local people who were a part of its history were Norman Cornish, the pitman painter and Shildon-born writer Sid Chaplin. The building is a centre for the arts- mostly drama and music, but other community events take place here.
The main attractions in Spennymoor are the local leisure centre, and Victoria Jubilee Park which was given to the people of the town by Queen Victoria to celebrate the jubilee of her reign, and is sited on land which was once part of the Whitworth Hall estate of the Shafto family. Until World War II there was a cannon from the Crimean War on display in the park, this was taken away to be melted down for munitions. A Millennium arch was erected in the park.
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Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2018 highlights
27,000 visitors flocked to Bishop Auckland in April for two days of fabulous food, live music and inspiring celebrity cookery demonstrations.
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Durham Traffic Cameras - Durham Road Block
Durham Road Block group are opposed to the Durham County Council’s County Plan proposed Northern & Western Relief Roads.
An ill-considered, expensive mistake. £90 million for both roads, costs will rise, regarding old mine workings at Kepier, Frankland Woods & The River Browney Valley.
DCC claim that twice daily rush hour congestion in the city is a problem that can only be solved by building more roads, but view the evidence of no major road traffic congestion in Durham City Centre, this is the reality.
Durham Road Block! is a not-for-profit coalition of private individuals and organisations campaigning against the Durham Relief Roads.
Our objectives are:
• To campaign against, and raise awareness of the Northern and Western Relief Road proposals contained within the County Durham Plan.
• To campaign for, and raise awareness of, sustainable transport and sustainable development.
• To protect and promote the natural and built environment in and around the City of Durham.
• To campaign for equitable use of public funding, and evidence-based decision-making by publicly-funded organisations.
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Respectful discussion in furtherance of the organisation's objectives is welcomed, but please, no swearing or insults.
We need activism to get the message across to DCC and in any form as long as no one is hurt and that property is not damaged. We are a group that promotes peaceful protest!!!
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Welcome to Redcar
In September 2012 the name of Redcar Beacon was chosen. Other suggested names that made it to the final were: Crow's nest, Jubilee Pier, Lemon Top Tower, Mo's Lookout, Mowlam's Beacon in Tribute to the MP for Redcar Mo Mowlam. Redcar Skelter, Saltscar Tower, Vertical Pier. In 2013 it was nominated for the Building Design Carbuncle Cup for worst new building.In December 2015, the Beacon was damaged by winds from Storm Desmond, with several large pieces of panelling falling on to the beach below.
Redcar has three railway stations, on the Tees Valley Line served by Northern. From west to east, they are British Steel Redcar, with a very limited service for steel workers; Redcar Central, serving the town centre, and Redcar East about a mile to the south-east serving the residential area (unofficially) named after the station.
On weekdays, trains run approximately every half-hour in each direction, towards Saltburn eastbound and Middlesbrough, Darlington and Bishop Auckland westbound. There are also two of early morning through trains to Newcastle upon Tyne that run via Darlington and on to the East Coast Main Line via Durham and Chester-le-Street. Trains are less frequent in the evenings and at weekends.
The town's college is Redcar & Cleveland College. The town's secondary schools are: Redcar Academy, Sacred Heart Secondary Catholic Voluntary Academy and Rye Hills School. There are eleven primary schools in Redcar
Redcar is home to Redcar Racecourse, a racecourse for thoroughbred horse racing.
There is also a motorcycle speedway racing team, the Redcar Bears racing in the Premier League. The race track is at the South Tees Motorsport Park in Southbank Street, South Bank and is unusual in that one bend is more highly banked than the other. Also in Coatham is Redcar Cricket Club and Redcar Running Club.
The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne came to Redcar on 26 July 1859 in search of peace and quiet while he worked on the manuscript of The Marble Faun. Hawthorne's house, formerly known as the Hawthorne Cafe, stands at the junction of High Street and King Street. Gertrude Bell, colonial administrator and colleague of Lawrence of Arabia spent her youthful years at Red Barns House in Coatham, now the Red Barns Hotel and a listed building, and which is being considered as a museum to Bell.
Film and television actors and actresses Pip Donaghy, June Laverick, and Wendy Hall, and actor/director/producer Robert Porter were all born in Redcar. Actor and radio actor Felicity Finch, famous for her part in the Archers BBC Radio 4 drama series, playing Ruth Archer, was also born and grew up in Redcar.
Singer David Coverdale, lead singer with Deep Purple and Whitesnake lived in Redcar as a youth and worked in the Gentry clothes shop on Coatham Road. Chris Norman, founder member and former lead singer of Smokie was born in Redcar. Pete York, drummer with the Spencer Davis Group and session drummer was born in Redcar.
Paralympian, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, originally from Wales, lived in Redcar for a number of years with her husband and daughter.
In 2006, Redcar was used as a location for the film adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel Atonement. The Coatham Hotel, Regent Cinema, a section of Newcomen Terrace and part of the beach were dressed as 1940s Dunkirk. Filming took place across three days in August 2006, with local men playing the soldiers. It was directed by Joe Wright Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster. Screenplay by Christopher Hampton Based on Atonement by Ian McEwan: Starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave: Music by Dario Marianelli. Cinematography Seamus McGarvey Edited by Paul Tothill Production Company StudioCanal Relativity Media Working Title Films Distributed by Focus Features Release dates 29 August 2007 (VIFF) 7 September 2007 (United Kingdom) Running time 123 minutes Country United Kingdom France Budget $30 million Box office $129.3 million
BBC One Show filming in Darlington, UK
Darlington lady, Elizabeth Quest, talks about taking part in BBC One's 'One Show' - My Story feature. BBC filming in Darlington, UK
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Chilton & Windlestone WMC, Ferryhill, UK. 20 April 2001