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Derwentcote Steel Furnace
Derwentcote Steel Furnace (grid reference NZ131566), Rowlands Gill, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England, built in 1720, is an example of an early cementation furnace which produced high-grade steel. A Grade I listed building, it is part of an industrial and mining site that has been protected as a scheduled monument. It was restored in 1990 by English Heritage.
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Hamsterley, Consett
Hamsterley is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated to the north of Consett and borders the hamlet of Low Westwood.
The name Hamsterley possibly derives from the Old English ‘hamstra’, meaning a corn weevil and ‘ley’ meaning clearing, hence a clearing frequented by corn weevils, perhaps indicating the poor quality of farming in the area.
Hamsterley is mentioned in Bishop Hatfield’s survey of 1382, the land being held by John de Felton and the heirs of Hugh del Redhugh. By 1500 the lands were held by the Swinburne family whose descendants continued to hold the land until the early century 19th century. Hamsterley Hall was built by the Swinburnes in the early 17th century and later enlarged in the following centuries. The Surtees family took over the estate and hall in 1806, passing to the Viscounts Gort in 1885. Hamsterley Hall was the birthplace of the hunting novelist Robert Smith Surtees, author of Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities.
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Hamsterley Mill
Hamsterley Mill is a village in County Durham, around 3 miles from Burnopfield and approximately the same distance from Consett.
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Blaydon and Consett
Blaydon and Consett is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Created as a result of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election and is currently held by Liz Twist of the Labour Party, who previously represented the abolished Blaydon constituency from 2017 to 2024.
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Hamsterley Hall
Hamsterley Hall is an 18th-century English country house at Hamsterley, Rowlands Gill, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The estate at Hamsterley was given, in 1762, by Sir John Swinburne Bt to his younger brother Henry Swinburne. In 1769, Henry carried out substantial alterations to the then existing house to create the present two-story, four-bayed castellated Gothic Revival-style mansion.
Swinburne died in 1803 and in 1806 the property was sold to Anthony Surtees. His son Robert Smith Surtees, a novelist, acquired the estate in 1838. He was High Sheriff of Durham in 1856. He died in 1864, leaving his estate to his daughter Eleanor, who married John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort in 1885. Their first son John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC was succeeded in 1946 by his brother Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount MC who lived at Hamsterley until his death in 1975.