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Whinfield coke works
Whinfield coke works was a large industrial complex located near Rowlands Gill in Tyne and Wear, North East England. The complex comprised a coking plant, alloy factory and power station. Waste heat from the plant provided heat for a power station. This was later converted to generate electricity by burning coke.
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Lintzford
Lintzford is a small village or hamlet on the border of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, England.
Situated on the River Derwent in the countryside on the A694 road between Consett to the south west and Rowlands Gill to the north east, Lintzford is renowned for its beauty, derived from nearby streams, forests and open fields, and the typical English cottage houses that surround it. Hamsterley Mill lies to its south west and an unclassified road to the south leads to High Spen. Burnopfield and the Lintz lie up the top of the hill to the south. The River Derwent here forms the actual boundary between the counties of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.
Linzford Station can be found up a public footpath heading south east from the village on the Derwent Walk and is a short uphill walk after crossing Lintzford Bridge. There is no direct vehicular access, with easiest access via the A694 to the south west to Hamsterly Mill, the a double-left onto the B6310 towards nearby Burnopfield before turning onto the unpaved Lintz Green Road before reaching Burnopfield.
The place name Lintz is taken from the Old English “hlinc” meaning rising ground, ridge, or bank which does describe the geography of the area. Described in 1137 as Lincestrete and Lince, other variations include Linz, Lynce, Lynz, and Lynths.
The single-span bridge linking Linzford with the Newcastle road was designed and built 1834–5, by John Green.
Its population was approximately 200 according to the last census.
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Rowlands Gill
Rowlands Gill is a village on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The Gibside Estate is near the town.
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Rowlands Gill railway station
Rowlands Gill railway station served the village of Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear, England from 1867 to 1963 on the Derwent Valley Railway.
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Lintz Green railway station
Lintz Green Railway Station was on the Derwent Valley Railway Branch of the North Eastern Railway near Consett, County Durham, England. The railway station opened with the rest of the line on 2 December 1867 and closed to passengers on the 2 November 1953. The line closed completely in 1963 and was dismantled with the station site becoming part of the Derwent Walk Country Park.
The hamlet of Lintz Green is roughly half a mile south of the station site, and the small village of Lintzford is by the River Derwent about a half-mile to the north.
The station was infamous at the time for the unsolved 1911 murder of its stationmaster.