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Witton Gilbert
Witton Gilbert est une paroisse civile et un village situé dans le comté de Durham, en Angleterre. La population de la paroisse civile au recensement de 2011 était de 2 419 habitants.
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Witton Gilbert
Witton Gilbert is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England.
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Witton Gilbert railway station
Witton Gilbert railway station served the village of Witton Gilbert, County Durham, England from 1862 to 1963 on the Lanchester Valley Line.
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Wall Nook
Wall Nook is a hamlet in the civil parish of Esh, in County Durham, England. It is situated to the south of Langley Park, to the north west of Durham.
Wall Nook is known for its picturesque pastoral scenery in the autumn and was depicted on many nineteenth century lithographs.
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Langley Park, County Durham
Langley Park is a village in County Durham, England. The historic city of Durham lies 4 miles (6.4 km) to the east.
The village has a wide variety of shops and amenities and is also home to Diggerland, where children of all ages can take control of a variety of heavy machinery and take rides over the former colliery ground on bulldozers and Land Rovers. The village has a primary school which includes nursery, reception, infant and junior classes.
The Lanchester Valley Railway Path runs along the northern edge of Langley Park on the site of the disused Consett Iron Works railway line. It is designated as National Route 14 on the Sustrans National Cycle Network which runs from Haswell, via Durham City, to Consett.
Langley Park has grown steadily in recent years and has benefited from the influx of new residents, who are attracted to the village by the construction of several housing developments. Current housing projects are underway on the site of the former Kings Picture house and Hilltop View and plans are in hand to construct houses on the current site of Anderson & Young coachworks.
The River Browney, which flows to the north of the village, has recovered from the effects of contamination caused by a century of local industry and is fished regularly both by anglers and by otters, who have made a return to the river in recent years.
There are Commonwealth War Graves in the cemetery of the Anglican church, All Saints in Langley Park, which is also the only grave of the unknown soldier outside London.
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Langley Park Wind Farm
Langley Park Wind Farm is a wind farm near Langley Park, County Durham, England. It was developed by EDF Energy and is operated by Cumbria Wind Farms, the farm has a nameplate capacity of 8.2 MW, containing four REpower Systems' MM82 turbines each rated at 2.05MW.
In 2008 EDF accepted that it had failed to check the impact of the turbines on digital television reception, after residents of villages where the turbines lay on a line-of-sight to the local TV transmitter complained of a loss of signal strength and severe Freeview Digital Services disruption, particularly when the turbine blades rotate.