North-East History Tour

Via Wikipedia (public domain) As we all know, the mortal remains of St.Cuthbert lie in Durham Cathedral, right? Well, probably....

For all its Norman grandeur, Durham Cathedral was the scene of one of the most heinous war crimes in British history. The story of the ...

Cast in stone on Prebends’ Bridge, Durham City: Grey towers of Durham Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles Half church o...

A little to the east of Durham City sits a spot on the map which goes by the name of Old Durham. It is aptly named, as here was said to si...

Sherburn Hospital , 1774 The site on and around the institution formerly known as Sherburn Hospital , a little to the east of Durha...

One’s arrival at Durham City ’s present-day railway station, high to the north-west of the tight little conurbation, gives the lucky pa...

© Copyright OliverDixon and licensed for reuse  under this Creative CommonsLicence . This extraordinary sight is the famous ‘ Pi...

Visitors to this little village by the side of the old Great North Road often wonder about the origin of its place-name. After all, Sund...

Like the rest of the North-East’s football teams, Newcastle United’s glory days have long since disappeared over the horizon. But a co...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is recognised – and was acknowledged in her lifetime – as one of the best known and most popular poets o...

The Trimdon Grange explosion of 16 th February 1882 left 74 men and boys dead. Within hours, famous local song-smith, Tommy Armstrong, ...

On the face of it, there doesn’t appear to have ever been very much in the way of activity in and around Garmondsway. The few farm- and h...

In 1683, one of the most infamous incidents of mass murder in the region’s history took place at Brass House Farm (now High Hill House Far...

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...