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Dist:0.1km<br/>View eastwards, towards Tyne Dock (via Pelaw) and Newcastle (via Birtley), former Stanhope & Tyne (Pontop & South Shields) Railway. Beamish station was closed to passengers 21/9/53 (goods, 2/8/60); the passenger service Blackhill - Birtley - Newcastle ceased 23/5/55. The photograph shows a BR 9F 2-10-0 returning down the steep incline through Beamish on iron-ore empties returning from Consett to Tyne Dock, a traffic that continued until 1974.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>Built by Sally Matthews, the Beamish Shorthorns, constructed from scrap metal contentedly graze by the side of the Consett and Sunderland railway path (part of the C2C cycle route). www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1121269805734
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.1km<br/>Old houses in Beamish known as Peggy's Wicket. Overlooking the old Consett railway line (now the C2C long distance cycle path). The gardens to the left are on the railway embankment. The C2C is about 15m to the north and 10m lower than this footpath, running parallel to it. Photograph taken from the footbridge over the C2C (takes you into Beamish Woods).
©John Bedlington
Dist:0.3km<br/>Stone sculpture about 4-5m high constructed in 1996 by artist Colin Rose. This is part of a rural art scheme and was made using dry stone walling techniques. A steel pole was embedded into the ground intially and a line from the top of the pole to the ground was used to scribe the circle at the base.
©John Bedlington
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©peter robinson
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©brian clark
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©brian clark
Dist:0.4km<br/>Social Housing visible from the Shepherd & Shepherdess Pub. Erected c.1863 for John Eden the owner of the Beamish Estates at the time. Local folklore has it that the plan of the development is in the shape of an 'E' for his surname. Sandstone used extensively in construction.
©John Bedlington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Located in the St. Pauls Churchyard, West Pelton
©John Bedlington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Front view of well known local pub. This was taken in the Summer of 2006 following repainting.
©John Bedlington
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©Alex McGregor
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©Alex McGregor
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©brian clark
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©Barry Wood
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is the entrance gate to Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum. It is a former steam hammer, nicknamed "Tiny Tim" and was donated to the museum by the English Steel Corporation in 1966.
©Bluespacecat

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