Haswell Plough

Haswell Plough is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated between Durham and Peterlee, south of Haswell. Haswell Plough was first mentioned in the 12th century as being one of three parts of the village of Haswell. It is also the village where MEP of thirty years Stephen Hughes was brought up.

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Ludworth, County Durham

Ludworth is a pit village in County Durham, England situated between Durham and Peterlee. Ludworth is 6.2 miles from Durham City Centre and 5.4 miles from Peterlee. It consists of just over 350 houses in three main housing estates (Barnard Avenue, Moor Crescent and Springfield Meadows) and a few smaller streets. Ludworth has a combined post office and community shop, a primary school, a community centre, a small park and a printers. The village used to have a church, two Methodist chapels and a fish shop, most of which were destroyed in a fire. The last public house in Ludworth, The Queen's Head, has been closed since before 2009. The nearest pubs are now in Shadforth and Thornley. There are no supermarkets in Ludworth although most supermarkets that offer a delivery service will deliver to resident's homes. Residents who need anything more than the small Post Office and village shop offers, when shopping locally, rely on Peterlee, Dragonville Industrial Estate (near to Sherburn, County Durham), Durham City Centre, Hartlepool or smaller shops in neighbouring villages such as Sherburn and Wheatley Hill. The 24 Arriva bus service runs, in both directions, half hourly during the day between Durham City Centre and Hartlepool, except on Sundays when it runs hourly. There are no late evening services in either direction on Sundays. There is no railway station. Ludworth Tower was originally a medieval manor house, founded by the de Ludworth family. In 1422, Thomas Holden added a rectangular pele tower, when he was granted licence to crenellate his manorial complex, by Cardinal Langley. The only surviving remains are the barrel-vaulted basement, the three storey west wall and fragments of a first floor spiral stair in the south wall. The remains can be seen on the left as you come into the village from Shadforth and are contained within Tower Farm.

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Haswell, County Durham

Haswell is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the city of Durham, 9 miles (14 km) south of the city of Sunderland and 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north-west of the town of Peterlee.

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Dabble Bank

Dabble Bank is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the County Durham district of County Durham, England. It lies about 1 km west of the village of Haswell and about 9 km east of the city of Durham. The site is important for its communities of nationally scarce grassland on Magnesian Limestone and in particular for its unusual location, in a small valley cut into the limestone plateau. A feature of the site is grassland characterised by downy oat-grass, Avenula pubescens, this being a vegetation type which nationally has a scattered distribution on lowland limestones and which is rare in County Durham. Among the species found is the pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, which is rare in the county.

High Haswell

High Haswell is a settlement in County Durham, in England. It is situated at the crest of a hill close to Haswell, a few miles to the east of Durham. The original village of Haswell was located where High Haswell is now, where only a handful of dwellings and farms remain. There is archaeological evidence of pre-Roman settlement.