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Dist:0.1km<br/>Welton Hall was originally recorded in the 13th or 14th century, but the present building dates from 1614 and is Grade II listed. Now a farm.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.3km<br/>Whittle Dene provides four fishing lakes each containing a good mix of wild species such as roach, perch, dace and gudgeon. Skimmer bream were introduced into the Lower Lake during 2006, several thousand crucian carp and 900 roach from Derwent Reservoir in 2010. http://www.nwl.co.uk/whittle_dene.pdf
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Whittle Dene Reservoirs form a collection of modest sized lakes close to the village of Harlow Hill, west of Tyneside.
©Trevor Littlewood
Dist:0.3km<br/>The western shore of the Great Western Reservoir, part of the Whittle Dene group of reservoirs which were completed in 1848 to supply drinking water to Newcastle and Gateshead. The reservoirs are very good fishing lakes.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the Western reservoir and is one of a series of connecting body's of water that make up Whittle Dean.
©Chris Tweedy
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.4km<br/>The northern shore of the Great Western Reservoir, part of the Whittle Dene group of reservoirs which were completed in 1848 to supply drinking water to Newcastle and Gateshead. The reservoirs are very good fishing lakes.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Mackerel sky is a popular term for a sky covered with extensive cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds arranged in somewhat regular waves and showing blue sky in the gaps. http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/Sometimes-a-bit-fishy.htm "Mackerel in the sky, three days dry." "Mackerel sky, mackerel sky. Never long wet and never long dry." In the winter they are often said to precede snowstorms and flurries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altocumulus_mackerel_sky
©Andrew Curtis
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.5km<br/>House for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company dates from 1848 and was designed by John Dobson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dobson_(architect) http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1044981
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.5km<br/>This smaller reservoir is West of Whittle Dene West Reservoir.
©Les Hull
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©Les Hull
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©Andrew Curtis

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