Low Etherley - Izeria

Low Etherley is a village in County Durham, in England. It is located a few miles to the west of Bishop Auckland. In 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened a horse-drawn branch line, the Etherley Incline Railway, from West Auckland to serve Witton Park Colliery, north of Etherley. This line passed through Low Etherley, where it was worked by a cable-hauled incline powered by a stationary steam engine.

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High Etherley

High Etherley is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated on a hill approximately 4 miles west of Bishop Auckland. Entering High Etherley on the A68 from West Auckland the village continues on the B6282 towards Bishop Auckland. High Etherley is in the civil parish of Etherley. The population of the parish at the United Kingdom 2011 census was 2,060. High Etherley has two places of worship, St Cuthbert's Church and a Methodist chapel. There is one public house, the Three Tuns. The village also hosts the Etherley Cricket Club.

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Phoenix Row

Phoenix Row incorporating Belts Gill and Softley Dene Farm (formerly Glebe Farm) is a hamlet of about 30 houses in County Durham, in England. It is situated half a mile north of Low Etherley and 2.5 miles west of Bishop Auckland.

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Toft Hill, County Durham

Toft Hill is a hilltop village in County Durham, in England straggling along the A68, a few miles to the west of Bishop Auckland and adjoining the village of High Etherley. An ancient site of defensive settlement and used by the Romans, the name of Toft Hill is possibly of Norse or Angle derivation and means "Hill Hill". The village is underlaid by coal measures and saw expansion in the 19th century mining boom under the coal-owning Stobart family. The various drifts of their Carterthorne Colliery formed large extended galleries beneath the village. In recent years much of the village's archaeology has been swept away by open cast mining. In 2023, Durham County Council began surveys for a new A68 bypass to reroute traffic around Toft Hill, to reduce the number of large vehicles passing through the village.

Woodside, County Durham

Woodside is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated 2 miles (3 km) to the west of Bishop Auckland. In the 2001 census Woodside had a population of 153.