Barnard Castle is a market town in Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is named after the castle around which it grew up. It is the main settlement in the Teesdale area, and is a popular tourist destination. The Bowes Museum has the best collection of European fine and decorative arts in the North of England, housed in a "magnificent" 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most famous exhibit is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, though art includes work by Goya and El Greco.
Population: 6,864
Latitude: 54° 32' 29.40" N
Longitude: -1° 55' 8.40" W
Butterknowle is a village in Teesdale, County Durham, England, situated between the market towns of Bishop Auckland (9 miles to the east) and Barnard Castle (6 miles to the south-west). It has an attractive rural setting within the Gaunless Valley, …
Brafferton is a village in the borough of Darlington and the traditional and ceremonial counties of Durham in England. The population of Brafferton Parish taken at the 2011 census was 154. It is situated between Darlington and Newton Aycliffe, a sho…
Bolam is a small village located in County Durham, England. The village population at the 2011 census was 209. It is situated a few miles to the north west of Darlington.
Bishop Barrington School is a co-educational comprehensive school in the town of Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, England. It was established in 1810 in the town's market place and named after, the then Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, who was a notab…
Bishop Auckland Hospital is a small NHS district general hospital serving the western part of County Durham, with a primarily rural catchment area centred on the Wear Valley. It was opened in 2002 and then had around 286 beds, but this number has si…
Aycliffe Village is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated immediately to the south of the town of Newton Aycliffe.
Aycliffe Stadium was a sports facility located in County Durham, England, on the southern edge of the Aycliffe Industrial Estate, which has Newton Aycliffe to the North and Aycliffe Village to the South. It was a short (370 yard) oval tarmac race tr…
The A67 is a road in England that links Bowes in County Durham with Crathorne in North Yorkshire. The section from the A66 to Barnard Castle is primary status; from that point it turns right and loses the primary status to the A688 road.
Woodland is a rural village in County Durham, England. It is situated 1100 feet above sea level, a few miles to the north of Barnard Castle, and west of Bishop Auckland. Woodland is a typical small rural community with most villagers finding employm…
Witton Park is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the west of Bishop Auckland.
Willington A.F.C. is an English football club based in Willington, County Durham.
Whinney Hill is a village within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England.
West Park is a modern NHS adult mental health unit situated on the north-western outskirts of Darlington in the West Park development.
Wain Wath Force is a waterfall situated on the River Swale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. The falls are located at grid reference NY883015, one kilometre upstream from the hamlet of Keld which has three other waterfa…
The Vale of Eden is formed by the course of the River Eden, one of the major rivers of Northwest England. It is however of much greater extent than the actual valley of the river, lying between the Cumbrian Mountains (more usually referred to as the…
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church standing in open countryside in the former village of South Cowton, near Scotch Corner in North Yorkshire, England.
South Church railway station was on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Shildon railway works opened in 1825 in the town of Shildon in County Durham, England.