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Shotley Bridge is a village, adjoining the town of Consett to the south in County Durham, England, 15 miles northwest of Durham. It is located on the A694 road starting from Consett and Blackhill to the south, then continuing north east to East Law, Ebchester and onward to Swalwell within the borough of Gateshead.
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The town of Shotley Bridge is situated on the eastern bank of the River Derwent and is an attractive place of mostly stone houses. Shotley Bridge is in County Durham but the much smaller and original Shotley from which it is probably named is just over on the other side of the Derwent in Northumberland. The name Shotley is thought to derive from th...
Long before the ironworks, Shotley Bridge was the heart of Britain’s swordmaking industry. The origins of this industry here dated to around 1691 when a group of Lutheran swordmakers from Solingen in Germany settled at Shotley Bridge after leaving their homeland to escape religious persecution. A terrace of cottages was built for the community in W...
The bridge across the Derwent at Shotley Bridge links the town to the smaller village of Shotley just across the river in Northumberland. The most notable feature of little Shotley on that side of the river is Shotley Hall, a romantic-style neo-Gothic house of 1863 built by the architect, Edward Robson, who was an associate of John Dobson. Situated...
Ebchester was the place where the Roman road called Dere Street (the Forest way) once crossed the River Derwent on the route between York and Hadrian’s Wall. It was the site of a Roman fort called Vindomara, a name that means ‘Edge of the Black Moor’. The site of the Roman fort has undergone very little excavation, as it is largely built over, but ...
Hamsterley derives its name from an old word ‘hamstra’, meaning a corn weevil which is a kind of beetle and has the same meaning as the Hamsterleybetween Teesdale and Weardale, There are three Hamsterley villages on the Derwent. The first two are Hamsterley Colliery (where a colliery was worked from 1864 to 1968) and then we have the adjoining vill...
Returning to the River Derwent, on the north bank of the river is Lintzford to the east of Hamsterley Mill where the river winds its way north east towards Rowlands Gillin the Borough of Gateshead. Lintzford, just within County Durham is situated close to the A694. This village was long the home of a corn mill from around the fourteenth century and...
Shotley Bridge is a village, adjoining the town of Consett to the south in County Durham, England, 15 miles northwest of Durham. It is located on the A694 road starting from Consett and Blackhill to the south, then continuing north east to East Law, Ebchester and onward to Swalwell within the borough of Gateshead. Wikipedia.
SHOTLEY-BRIDGE, a village in Lanchester parish, Durham; on the river Derwent, near the Consett branch of the Northeastern railway, and 13 miles SW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was mainly settled by German sword-cutlers, religions refugees from Germany, in the time of William III.; rose to importance, in conjunction with Consett, as the centre of ...
Shotley Bridge is a village, adjoining the town of Consett to the south in County Durham, England, 15 miles northwest of Durham. Quick Facts Population, OS grid reference ... Close.
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Shotley Bridge is a village in the Derwent Valley, adjoining the town of Consett in County Durham, England. Shotley Bridge was once the heart of Britain's swordmaking industry. History
