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    short distance to the east of Barnard Castle. Wycliffe is in the civil parish of Wycliffe with Thorpe. It is located within the historic boundaries of...
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    John Wycliffe (/ˈwɪklɪf/; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; c. 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian...
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  • William Thorpe is a Middle English text dating from 1407. The putative author William Thorpe may have been a Lollard, a follower of John Wycliffe. Whether...
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  • Holwick (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from May 2023)
    lies within the historic boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire. Along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County...
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    Barnard Castle (category Pages using cite ODNB with id parameter)
    North Yorkshire to the south-east. The largest employer is GlaxoSmithKline, with a manufacturing facility on the town's outskirts. Before the Norman Conquest...
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    Easington, County Durham (category All articles with dead external links)
    green for involvement in the plot to replace Tudor monarch Queen Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots. Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100–1 September 1159), born Nicholas...
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    Peterlee (category Articles with short description)
    Simon (13 June 2017). "Watch: Courtney Hadwin, the Peterlee school girl with the huge voice". Evening Chronicle. Retrieved 27 November 2018. "Mum of America's...
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    Lollardy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    weakening. With regard to the Eucharist, Lollards such as John Wycliffe, William Thorpe, and John Oldcastle, taught a view of the real presence of Christ...
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    Middleton-in-Teesdale (category Articles with short description)
    Mary's Church, rebuilt in the late 1870s, has a historic detached bell tower with bells dating back to the 16th century. There are separate chapels for Catholics...
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    Newton Aycliffe (category Articles with short description)
    south of Durham. It is the oldest new town in the north of England. Together with the bordering Aycliffe Village (to the south) and the north part of School...
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    Pelton, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    is served by public transport, with links to Stanley, Sunderland, Newcastle upon Tyne, Chester-le-Street and Consett with buses running up to every 30 minutes...
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    Sherburn, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    considerable time. Until the 19th century Sherburn was a farming village, but with the Industrial Revolution came the sinking of mines to provide coal to fuel...
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    Horden (category Articles with short description)
    Eden Dene near Denemouth. Horden Dene provides Horden's northern boundary with Easington Colliery. The local manor house, Horden Hall, was built in the...
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  • Belmont, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    area, Belmont Business Park with New Ferens Park football stadium opened in 1995, and this site has continued to grow with further industrial developments...
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    West Auckland, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    reputed to have one of the largest village greens in the country, lined with 17th- and 18th-century buildings.[citation needed] In 2021 it had a population...
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    Hurworth-on-Tees (category Articles with short description)
    to the south of Darlington on the River Tees, close to its meeting point with the River Skerne, and immediately adjoins the village of Hurworth Place,...
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  • Castle Eden (category Articles with short description)
    remains today. This is a listed building and is now managed office space with a popular Italian restaurant. The A19 used to run through the village until...
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    Seaham (category Articles with short description)
    result of investments in its harbour and coal mines. The town is twinned with the German town of Gerlingen. The original village of Seaham has all but...
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    Sacriston (category Articles with short description)
    quality of housing. Little evidence of the mining operations now remains, with the area around the former coal mine having been landscaped and turned into...
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    Grindon, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Grindon and Thorpe Thewles, in the Stockton-on-Tees district, in the ceremonial county of Durham...
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    Gainford, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    fashion is to reveal the stonework with the rendering removed. Roofs are mostly red pantiles, and tend to be finished with a line of split-stone along the...
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    Ferryhill (category Articles with short description)
    Ferryhill is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England, with an estimated population in 2018 of 9,362. The town grew in the 1900s around the coal...
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    Embleton, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    parish in its own right, on 1 April 1983 the parish was abolished and merged with Sedgefield. Mackenzie, Eneas; Ross, Marvin (1834), An historical, topographical...
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    Wynyard, County Durham (category Articles with short description)
    Wynyard, Stockton-on-Tees was formed, with the former parish of Grindon divided into two parishes of Grindon and Thorpe Thewles and Wynyard. Wynyard Parish...
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  • Witton Gilbert (category Articles with short description)
    early 1960s, with passenger service withdrawn in the late 1930s. However, the station building survives as a private residence, along with one of the platforms...
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    Shotton Colliery (category Articles with short description)
    one time the largest in the country. The Brick Works and Coke Works went with the pit. The only pit building left is now used as a second-hand car showroom...
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    Middleton One Row (category Articles with short description)
    village was originally developed as a spa resort in the late 18th century with properties developed on one row, overlooking the banks of the River Tees...
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    Easington Colliery (category Articles with short description)
    Sea. Thousands of workers came to the area from all parts of Britain, and with the new community came new shops, pubs, clubs, and many rows of terraced...
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  • Wheatley Hill (category Articles with short description)
    Gilbert Witton-le-Wear Wolsingham Wolsingham Park Moor Woodland Wycliffe with Thorpe Unparished areas The former Chester le Street Urban District Consett...
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    Brancepeth (category Articles with short description)
    Gilbert Witton-le-Wear Wolsingham Wolsingham Park Moor Woodland Wycliffe with Thorpe Unparished areas The former Chester le Street Urban District Consett...
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