North-East History Tour

No one can say for sure how the town of Ferryhill in County Durham got its name. There are three theories. The first speculates that ...

As you can no doubt guess from the settlement’s place-name, Bishop Middleham, a little to the north-west of Sedgefield in Co.Durham, was ...

About one mile due north of central Sedgefield lies the site of the former lunatic asylum for County Durham , latterly known as Wintert...

Gothic Ruin Folly, Hardwick Park A visit to the modern-day Hardwick Park, near Sedgefield, at the height of summer can scarcely ...

John Cosin was one of Durham ’s most famous prince-bishops. He ‘ruled’ for a little over eleven years from December 1660, and was gene...

Modern drainage techniques of the past couple of hundred years or so have transformed our landscape. Gone are the large tracts of uninhabi...

© Copyright OliverDixon and licensed for reuse   under this Creative CommonsLicence . The famous Duke of Wellington was a regu...

Wynyard Hall, c.1880 The Wynyard Hall/Park Estate, a few miles north of Stockton-on-Tees , has long been a beauty spot. Though the...

Guest Post by Tom Moss Elsdon in Redesdale, Northumberland, has a timeless air with many reminders of a bygone age. For all its tu...

A little to the north-west of Stockton lies the village of Carlton, and a few hundred yards to the north of that can be found Greyston...

Old Stillington – the original village, not the nineteenth century creation which jumps out at you from the map of today – lies a mile ...

The village of Great Stainton is so named, one assumes, to distinguish it from lesser known – and smaller – places of the same name sca...

© Copyright HughMortimer and licensed for reuse   under this Creative CommonsLicence . The prominent set of earthworks know...

© Copyright Carol Rose and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence The first Quaker Meeting House proper to be built ...

July 20 th 1753, died, at his house at Norton, Jeremiah Moore, esq., aged 57. He was the last of his family; and had, in the former part ...

[from Wikipedia ] The great William Thomson “Will” Hay was a famed comic screen actor of 1930s and 40s Britain . As a child, he live...

One of Stockton-on-Tees ’ greatest claims to fame is that it was the home of the man who invented the friction match, one John Walker....

[From The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore & Legend of April 1888] ‘Reminiscences of Stockton ’ by W.Fallows Some...

The village of Sadberge , a little to the east of Darlington , has one of those ancient-sounding place-names that you just know has a lon...

During 1845-6, ex-sailor, Joseph Taylor, struck upon the idea of using sails as a means of propulsion for railway carriages.  ...