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©Hugh Mortimer
Market Square
©Carl Bendelow
The town centre of the highest market town in England
©Carl Bendelow
Alston the wired up town in the North Pennines - look at http://www.cybermoor.org/
©Carl Bendelow
Town centre, looking SE up the steep, cobbled main street. Alston claims to be the highest market town in England.
©Andy Stephenson
This is a small weir downstream of the main road bridge over the South Tyne at Alston, and it holds no great hazard for canoeists. When the river is up, the weir is washed out and may not even be noticed. At intermediate levels, the stopper in the middle may be beefy, but lines either side give easier passage. It's an obvious spot to look for a playwave, but at the level seen here, which is about as low as you'd want to paddle this section of the river, the wave contains a number of rocks just downstream of the weir and is quite difficult to use.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking down to the bottom of Front Street, Alston's 'high street'. This is the junction of the A686 and A689, England's highest A-roads. The backdrop is Park Fell.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is an old Polish engine, the "Naklo", at Alston Station. The short line running north from here recreates the "age of steam".
©Colin Smith
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©Mike Quinn
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©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km<br/>This photograph shows a view of a section of the River South Tyne as it flows towards the road bridge in Alston. The picture was taken from the bridge looking in a north-north-westerly direction towards Harbut Lodge.
©Philip Barker
Dist:0.2km<br/>A cobbled street runs down through the centre of town.
©Helen Wilkinson
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Tyne café lies on the main road below the main part of the town and clearly the tourist visitors preferred the town centre with its steep cobbled street and photogenic buildings. Down here, decrepitude has set in in a big way, with not just the café closed and derelict, but a selection of rusting minibuses to add to the atmosphere of decay.
©Andy Waddington
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©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking across the South Tyne valley from the Brampton Road.
©Andrew Smith

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