Horn Hall

The old Horn Hall hospital before a new one was built in the grounds and renamed the Community Hospital.  This is now a private residence and there are new houses built to the bottom right of the photo. 

West Blackdene Bridge

West Blackdene bridge, a two arched,  is the second bridge to cross the River Wear. It is the entrance into Blackdene from the main road with the houses of the village being down the right side of the photo.

WhiteStones Cottage

Whitestones Cottage is a lovely little cottage overlooking Blackdene and Ireshopeburn, on the back road near Newhouse.

Sedling Farm

Along the Sedling Road, overlooking Wearhead is Sedling Farm, front and Sedling Cottage behind.  Sedling Cottage was lived in many years ago by the Frith family, their mother Bertha Frith died only three weeks ago aged 96 years.

West Black Dene

West Black Dene taken from the top of the Black Dene road.  The house straight ahead of the road is just being built, it is an eco-friendly house.  The houses on the hillside beyond are Whitestones.  The mine used to be down to the right of the photo.

Black Dene Mine Offices

This house used to be the  mine offices when Black Dene Mine was still in use.  The mine was just a little way down, behind it, with the washing plant beside.  The house is now a private residence and all the other building demolished.  the site of the mine has been capped and the whole field levelled, so nothing remains.  The River Wear can be seen on the right side of the photo.

Wearhead Front Street -1922 and 2013

The top photo is the opening of Wearhead Co-op in 1922, run as part of Stanhope & Weardale Co-op.  It was taken over by Penrith Co-op several years ago and was Front Street; it closed in about 2005. The upstairs was a drapery department until the 1970s when upstairs only became a private residence.  The next shop was a newsagents and sweet shop, this closed in the early part of this century. The roof which can be seen at the left side was the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel which was demolished in 1938, it is now a private car parking space.

The bottom photo is the same place, the Co-op is now the local Village Stores, and th enewsagents a private residence.  At the bottom of the street the water pump can still be seen next to the post box and telephone box. Apart from more snow and fewer people, much the same!

 

Wearhead Railway Station

This used to be the Railway Sation until the line closed in the late 1950s.  Wearhead was the end of the line for the Weardale Railway, the track now runs as far as Stanhope.  The station was demolished apart from one wall and rebuilt as a bungalow in the 1960s.  Lots of information about the Weardale Railway can be found in the Weardale Museum.

Wearhead from Sedling

Wearhead taken from the fields below Sedling.  Six Dargue is the white house near the left, Wear Villa in the centre and Front Street houses at the bottom.  The filter beds can just be seen in the top left corner. Hollin hill is centre top and the terrace of Stonedress near the top right.

East & West Villas

East and West Villas are next door to the Old Police Station in Wearhead.  West Villa used to be the Post Office many years ago, before it moved up the street, before closing about 10 years ago.  The top end of the dale now travel to St. John's Chapel for our nearest post office.  these houses are only a few yards from Wearhead Bridge.

Old Police House

The Old Police House in Wearhead.  Now a private residence.

Vedra Close

Vedra Close consists of 8 houses, built by the council in the middle of the last century.  There are also 4 old person's bungalows at the top of the Close.  First houses as Wearhead is approached from the east.

Carraway Bank Foot

The house at the foot of Carraway Bank,  a few yards from West Black Dene.  This house is the last house in Heatherycleugh parish, the houses at the other side of the stream are in St. John's Chapel parish.

West Black Dene

The houses at the front of West Black Dene, which look straight onto the River Wear. The mine used to be just a few yards down the road, but it now entirely flat and grassed over.

Greenhill

 Greenhill, taken from Carraway bank, is on the roadside between Ireshopeburn and Wearhead. Ling Riggs can be seen in the background, with the snowy hills of Ireshope fell beyond.

Waterside Farm

Waterside Farm in West Blackdene, taken from Carraway bank. The farm is next to the River Wear and the railway line used to run just behind it.

Bents and Grain

This photo shows the cemetery at bottom, the house has just been renovated and is now inhabited by a lovely family.  Above at centre left is Bents Farm, a lane leads to the houses higher up, Middle Grain at the right, this has also had a lot of wortk done over the past few months after being bought last summer by another lovely couple. The lane continues up to the houses at the top,  North Grain,  with two houses to the left and three top the right.

Highlands

Highlands taken from Wearhead to Cowshill road.  It is the next building up the road from Bents, on the Burnhope reservoir road.

Bents Cottages

 Looking from the Wearhead-Cowshill road Bents Cottages are in view.  There are two cottages and can be reached from the Burtreeford road out of Cowshill.

North Grain

The row of three terraced houses, North Grain, and the detached house at the front, Ennerdale, are on the main road between Wearhead and Cowshill.  The houses at each end of the terrace are both for sale. The Killhopeburn runs directly behind them.

Westfall

Westfall is at the top end of Wearhead.  There are three houses at an angle to the road and three along side the road.  The old greenhouse at the right side has just been painstakingly renovated over the last couple of years.  Over  left of the wall at the left side runs the Killhopeburn before it enters the Wear a few yards downstream.

Wearhead Front Street

A view from Wearhead Bridge looking up Front Street.  The house at the front right used to be the Queen's Head many years ago, now a 5 bedroomed holiday let called Rockwell House.

Six Dargue

 Six Dargue is on the road from Wearhead to Burnhope Reservoir.  The origin of the name is Six Days Work.

 

Stripe Head Barn

Stripe Head Barn is a few yards along from Stripe Head Cottage.  They have a lovely view, looking down on to Wearhead and across to the reservoir.

 

Stripe Head Cottage

 Stripe Head Cottage near Burnhope Reservoir.  For many years the home of the Jones family, many of whom still live in the dale

 

Burnhope Wesleyan Chapel

 This building used to be the Wesleyan Chapel for Burnhope Village before the reservoir was built, covering all of the houses lower down the hillside.  It has a stone above the door which reads "Wesleyan Chapel 1856".

 

Burnhope Shooting Lodge

The Shooting Lodge at Burnhope Reservoir.

The small building to the right of the Lodge used to be the Wesleyan Chapel.  The Keepers' Cottages are to the right.

Cowshill

Looking down onto Cowshill from the Burnhope Road.  Our house is extreme right, Copt Cleugh is the house on the hillside near the top.  The back of the Church just to the left of centre.