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©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Taken from just north of the double stile over the field boundary seen on the left, where the footpath divides into two to the north, neither detectable on the ground. The ground slopes down to Newsham Beck and the line of an old railway, both of which pass close by the buildings with reds roofs in the distance in NZ1018. In the far distance, there is still plenty of snow on the hills of Cotherstone Moor.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.6km<br/>Replacement Cross. Original Position on base right of bench.
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.7km<br/>This terrace appears to have been made up of three houses, though there are only two front doors. The central unit has a slightly lower roof line, and the front wall leans slightly forward out of vertical. The decaying remains of a gable end of an earlier stone-built building adjoin the left end of the buildings still here, but the state of the roofs suggests that these houses will soon be equally ruinous. The only route in for vehicles is by a muddy track via Wether Hill Farm, but on foot, you have more choice, as the buildings are at a cross-roads of footpaths, though none of them look to be well-used.
©Andy Waddington
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©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.8km<br/>On the A688. Barnard Castle to Staindrop, road.
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.8km<br/>Newsham Beck rises in farmland at Stainton Grove, NE of Barnard Castle and flows to join Langley Beck near Selaby Hall, at no time flowing anywhere near Newsham, a village some eight kilometres to the south. The village from which it gets its name is Little Newsham, but apart from the village itself, nothing in the vicinity seems to want to use the adjective "little". Must be an inferiority complex working here. A public footpath crosses the beck via a footbridge just downstream of this point, but the footpath becomes completely invisible on this side of the beck, and it is not at all obvious where the path is supposed to cross the fence and the old railway trackbed just to the north.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.9km<br/>
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:1.0km<br/>The public footpath from Little Newsham to Cleatlam drops steeply down a leafy slope with rotting steps, and crosses Newsham Beck by this well-built footbridge. The little yellow arrow indicates that it then angles left up the slope towards an old railway trackbed. However, there is no evidence of use on the ground, and no obvious way to cross the fence visible from anywhere near the bridge. Perhaps the path would be more discernible by starting at Cleatlam and working south.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:1.0km<br/>This is the remains of the railway which used to run from Barnard Castle to Darlington which followed Newsham Beck for almost the whole of its course until it joined Langley Beck and then the Tees itself. It is increasingly difficult to find traces on the ground, and large parts of the course of the railway no longer show on the 1:50000 maps. Unlike many old railways, very little of this one has been used for vehicles, and although there are tractor tracks along this section for a short way west of Morey, the small embankment soon disappears in thickets. This is the point where the bed reappears to the west as an easily walkable route, though there seems to be little left of interest to railway archaeologists.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:1.0km<br/>A large farm which overlooks Newsham Beck, beyond which it has a view over Little Newsham. Clearly the original owners of both this and [[[459222]]] did not want the adjective "Little" prepended to the names of their houses, despite the fact that the village of Newsham is some eight kilometres to the south and the names are thus quite misleading.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>
©Stanley Howe
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>
©Stanley Howe
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>
©Hugh Mortimer

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