Crook Hall is a Grade I listed house built in the 13th or 14th to 18th centuries, located in the Framwelgate area of the City of Durham. The oldest part...
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Nunavut Crook, County Durham, a town Crook, Cumbria, a village and civil parish Crook Hill, Derbyshire Crook, Colorado, a Statutory Town Crook Township...
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Stanley Crook is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north of Crook and Billy Row. The area is rural, surrounded by open farm...
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Crook Hall, sited near Lanchester, County Durham, some 8 miles (13 km) north west of the city of Durham, was the seat of the Baker family and one of two...
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Particularly notable properties include: Chorister School Crook Hall Durham Castle Durham Cathedral Elvet Bridge Framwellgate Bridge Kepier Hospital...
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This is a list of schools in County Durham, England (Durham County Council area). Acre Rigg Academy, Peterlee Acre Rigg Infant School, Peterlee All Saints...
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Crookhall (category Villages in County Durham)
village in County Durham, in England. It is situated between Consett and Delves Lane. It is named after, and intimately connected to, Crook Hall which once stood...
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County Durham and the ceremonial county of Durham, England. Willington stands in the foothills of the Pennines and near the River Wear close to Crook, Bishop...
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The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during...
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home in 1795. Undeterred, he went to the new seminary established at Crook Hall, Durham with his brother George in 1796. Again, his vocation was questioned...
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in 1921. County Durham has a mostly rural character, especially in the west. Small population centres scatter between Durham, Crook, Bishop Auckland...
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County Hall is a municipal building at Aykley Heads in Durham, County Durham, England. It is the headquarters of Durham County Council. In the first half...
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Norbury. Old Shute House, Shute. Athelhampton Hall, Athelhampton. Crook Hall, Durham. Burton Agnes Manor House, Burton Agnes. Alfriston Clergy House, Alfriston...
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Hunwick (category Crook, County Durham)
times when it belonged to the Cathedral church of Durham. Hunwick stands between Bishop Auckland and Crook. It was later given to the Earls of Northumberland...
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A690 road (category Transport in County Durham)
Sunderland in the east through Durham to Crook. Throughout the Sunderland section it is known as either Durham Road or New Durham Road, and is one of the major...
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Roman Catholic chapel. The hall also acted as a refuge for students from the seminary at Douai before their move to Crook Hall. Coal mining is documented...
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George Baker (died 1723) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for the City of Durham)
George Baker (died 1723) of Crook Hall, Lanchester and Elemore, county Durham, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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he went to Crook Hall, Durham, where he was ordained priest in December 1802. He taught poetry and rhetoric for seven years at Crook Hall, and at Ushaw...
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Conyers, heiress of the estate, married George Baker, also MP for Durham City, of Crook Hall, near Lanchester. Their son George Baker inherited the manor in...
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Street Consett Darlington Durham Hartlepool Newton Aycliffe Peterlee Stockton Settlements in the ceremonial county of Durham, England, are in four unitary...
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Malcolm Dixon (actor) (category People from Crook, County Durham)
Dixon was born in Crook, County Durham, in 1934, as the youngest of seven brothers and the only child with dwarfism. He was raised in Crook. His parents died...
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Wolsingham (category Towns in County Durham)
Wolsingham is a market town in Weardale, County Durham, England. It is situated by the River Wear, between Crook and Stanhope. Wolsingham sits at the confluence...
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Byers Green (category Villages in County Durham)
became a junction station, between the Clarence and the West Durham Railway towards Crook. Passenger services were withdrawn on 4 December 1939, when the...
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Wackerfield (redirect from Wackerfield, County Durham)
Wackerfield is a hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north west of Darlington. At the 2021 Census the population...
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Shildon, Chester-le-Street, Crook, Stanley, Willington, Stanhope, Spennymoor, Ferryhill and Sedgefield while Durham is the only city in the district...
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South Moor (1) Crook North & Tow Law (1) Crook South (1) Dawdon (1) Deerness Valley (1) Delves Lane & Consett South (1) Deneside (1) Durham South (1) Easington...
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Ushaw College (category Former colleges of Durham University)
temporarily at Crook Hall near Lanchester, northwest of Durham. In 1804 Bishop William Gibson began to build at Ushaw Moor, four miles west of Durham. These buildings...
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Bishop Auckland (redirect from Auckland, County Durham)
River Gaunless in County Durham, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Darlington and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Durham. Much of the town's early...
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village in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the west of Darlington. Details...
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a town and civil parish in the ceremonial county and district of County Durham, England. Centred on a hilltop between Chester-le-Street and Consett, Stanley...
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