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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.
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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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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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High Friarside
High Friarside is a village in County Durham, England classified as a suburban area. It is situated a short distance to the west of Burnopfield.
The placename is variously recorded as Frevejohanside, Frerejonside, and Freresyde meaning "Friar (John’s) hill". There are also localities called Low Friarside and Middle Friarside.
At Low Friarside there are the ruins of a chapel. The date of the foundation of the chapel (sometimes referred to as a chantry or house, and possibly connected to a hospital) is unknown. However, it was in existence in 1312 when Bishop Kellawe collated John Eryum to 'the house, chapel, or chantry of Friarside (Frerejohanside) near Derwent.' In Bishop Hatfield's Survey (1383), the warden of the chantry of Friarside held a messuage and 22 acres of land in Wolsingham. In 1439 Bishop Neville appropriated it with all its revenues to the chantry of Farnacres after that site had suffered floods and a decrease in finances.
A list of masters of the chantry/chapel include, John Eryum, 1312; Richard de Egglescliffe, 1376 (?) William Thorp, 1376; Oswald, bishop of Whithorn, d. 1417; Robert Frend, 1418; William Cross, 1422; and, John Gare, 1423.
The hospital seems to have been demolished in 1450 . However, the chapel survived and with the closure of the chantries in England 1548 it was recorded that Friarside still had one bell perhaps indicating continued usage.
At Middle Friarside there is moat with multiple embankments and ditches.
There was a coal mine, South Garesfield Colliery, also known as Friarside Colliery and North Lintz Colliery that operated 1865-1960 (located to the west of Low Friarside.