County Durham, officially simply Durham, is a ceremonial county in North East England. The ceremonial county was created from the historic County Palatine of Durham in 1853.
Teesdale is a dale, or valley, in Northern England. The dale is in the River Tees’s drainage basin, most water flows stem from or converge into said river, including the Skerne and Leven.
Hutton Magna is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Situated 7.6 miles (12.2 km) south east of Barnard Castle. Lying within the historic boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the village along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District has been administered with County Durham since 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972. The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Lane Head.
Cowshill is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated at the top of Weardale, between Lanehead and Wearhead. In the 2001 census Cowshill had a population of 156.
Newbiggin is a village in County Durham, in England. Its population at the 2011 census was 146. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale, opposite Holwick. An influx of Derbyshire lead miners into the area in the late 18th century may have brought the name from Biggin. The village is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Middleton-in-Teesdale is a market town in County Durham, in England. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale between Eggleston and Newbiggin, a few miles to the north-west of Barnard Castle. The settlement is surrounded by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Harwood is a small valley and village near the head of Teesdale. Harwood Beck is a tributary of the River Tees in County Durham which forms a short valley, and the village is made of the scattered houses and farms which run the length of the valley. The valley forms part of the North Pennines AONB. Lying along the B6277, the village is 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Middleton-in-Teesdale and 21 miles (34 km) south-east of Alston in Cumbria. It is in the civil parish of Forest and Frith, and the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency.
Ettersgill is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated at the top of Teesdale, on the north side of the Tees between Newbiggin and Forest-in-Teesdale, and is in the civil parish of Forest and Frith. The village consists of scattered farms and farmhouses, centred on the fertile valley created by Etters Gill Beck, which flows from the mooorland into the Tees south of High Force.
Forest-in-Teesdale is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated in upper Teesdale, on the north side of the Tees between Newbiggin and Langdon Beck, and is in the civil parish of Forest and Frith.
Langdon Beck is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated in upper Teesdale, between Forest-in-Teesdale and Harwood, halfway between Penrith and Durham. It is in the civil parish of Forest and Frith. It is a stronghold for the black grouse, one of the few sites for them in the North of England.
Bradbury is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated between Sedgefield and Newton Aycliffe, close to the A1(M) and A689, and is approximately 16 km (9.9 mi) from Middlesbrough. Bradbury is a small agricultural village. The moorland around it is of glacial origin.
Stainton is a village in the south-west outskirts of Middlesbrough, England. It is in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire.
The Teesdale Way is a long-distance walk between the Cumbrian Pennines and the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire in England. The walk is 100 miles (160 km) in length; it links in with other long-distance walks such as the Pennine Way and the E2 European Walk between Harwich and Stranraer.
Lunedale is the dale, or valley, of the River Lune, on the east side of the Pennines in England, west of Middleton-in-Teesdale. Its principal settlements are Grassholme, Thringarth and Bowbank.
Upper Teesdale is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the west County Durham, England. It encompasses an extensive upland area that includes the headwaters of the River Tees and the surrounding catchment area upstream of the village of Langdon Beck.
Harraton is a former civil parish and now a suburb in the unparished area of the town of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, England. Harraton is near the River Wear and is 3 miles north-east of Chester-le-Street, 2 miles south-west of Washington town centre and 9 miles south-southwest of Sunderland.
Woodside is a civil parish in Allerdale district, Cumbria, England. At the 2011 census it had a population of 516. The parish has an area of 27.14 square kilometres (10.48 sq mi)
County Durham is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Durham, North East England. It covers the former non-metropolitan county and its seven districts: Durham (city), Easington, Sedgefield (borough), Teesdale, Wear Valley, Derwentside, and Chester-le-Street. It is governed by Durham County Council and has 136 civil parishes.
St Peter's Church is an Anglican parish church in Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was designed in 1829 by Ignatius Bonomi from Durham and is dedicated to St. Peter. It is near the seafront and coastline of the North Sea and Yorkshire Coast. It is an active place of worship in the Diocese of York.
Whelpo is a hamlet in the civil parish of Caldbeck, in the Allerdale district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is about one mile west of the village of Caldbeck. It can be accessed by the A5299 road. The hamlet contains two listed buildings – Whelpo Head, an 18th-century former farmhouse, and Whelpo Bridge, a stone bridge traversing Whelpo Beck. The other feature in the hamlet is the aforementioned Whelpo Beck, also referred to as Cald Beck, which is a tributary to the River Calder. The beck has a catchment area of 39.6 km2.
