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Dist:0.1km<br/>A view east along Armstrong Street in Ridsdale. Despite all the signs, motorists continue to hurtle along this single-track road. Children really are playing here - although 34 children live in the village there is no local play area in Ridsdale.
©Pete Saunders
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©Dennis Lovett
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©Ian S
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the view of Ridsdale when entering from the south on the A68.
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Villagers have been campaigning over 30 years for an appropriate speed limit through Ridsdale. We're still waiting.
©Pete Saunders
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking north along the A68 as it passes through the village of Ridsdale.
©G Laird
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the former engine house for the Ridsdale iron works. It housed two beam engines which supplied three blast furnaces - it is commonly assumed to be a castle.
©peter maddison
Dist:0.4km<br/>Foundry Yard at the north end of the village of Ridsdale. The former engine house for the Redesdale Ironworks (1836-1864) is at the right of the photograph. Spoil heaps resulting from the works are visible in the middle-distance. The skyline above the village has been dramatically altered since the clear-felling of Fourlaws forest in the summer of 2007. Compare this to the first geograph for NY9084.
©Pete Saunders
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©Ian S
Dist:0.5km<br/>Iron founding was once a major industry in this area.
©james denham
Dist:0.5km<br/>Ridsdale is a small Northumberland village straddling the A68; it was the location of an iron industry until the mid-nineteenth century. Ian Paterson [[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/459978]] tells that it's widely believed that the building is the ruin of a castle; in his hundreds of passes, the photographer, until today, thought the same.
©Trevor Littlewood
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is not a castle as it may at first appear. This is the former engine house for the Ridsdale Iron Works. It housed two beam engines which supplied the blast for three blast furnaces which were located to the north. The blast furnaces were dismantled by Armstrong in the late 19th Century and moved to his works on Tyneside. The remains of the engine house is the last remaining tangible evidence of iron-making in Ridsdale. It is commonly assumed to be a castle
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.5km<br/>130-years on, these ironstone quarries are slowly returning to nature. See also: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/438432
©Pete Saunders
Dist:0.5km<br/>A68 through Ridsdale.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.5km<br/>These are the best preserved 19th century iron ore quarries in the Ridsdale area. To begin with they were created to supply the Ridsdale Ironworks, but later supplied Armstrong's furnaces on Tyneside.
©Pete Saunders

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