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Dist:0.1km<br/>Opencut marking the course of the Cleveland Dyke which has been quarried away for roadstone.
©Helen Wilkinson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken from the road bridge at The Slack, and looking downstream. The Gaunless rises as several small becks to the west of here, and flows generally ENE to join the Wear at Bishop Auckland.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This stone bridge carried the Haggerleazes Branch of Stockton and Darlington Railway over the River Gaunless. It was built in 1830 and was the world's first railway crossing at an acute angle. It was designed by George Dixon of Cockfield. Locally it is known as the "Swin Bridge".
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>This stone bridge carried the Haggerleazes Branch of Stockton and Darlington Railway over the River Gaunless. It was built in 1830 and was the world's first skew railway bridge crossing the river at an acute angle. It was designed by George Dixon of Cockfield. See [[[60485]]] for a closer view. The river here is quite high due to overnight heavy rain.
©Mick Garratt
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©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>Dolerite is one of the many stone and minerals that have been extracted from Cockfield Fell over the centuries. It is a green form of whinstone, a volcanic rock forced up through a fault in the earth's crust and is extremely hard and used for road surfacing. The fault is known to be 72 miles long and has been extracted wherever it nears the surface. See [[24127]].
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>The original Stags Head to the left is now the Gaunless Valley Visitors Centre, the new Stags Head Inn, built in 1908 and closed in 2005.
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Slack is a curious name for this part of County Durham, close to Cockfield. At least one of the buildings seen on the far side of the River Gaunless has been known as The Stag's Head. Neither is now a public house.
©Trevor Littlewood
Dist:0.4km<br/>South of Butterknowle. A Hamlet west of Cockfield which once boasted a pub and a brickworks , looking toward Diamond Hill
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Giving access to excellent countryside walking in this area of County Durham
©peter robinson
Dist:0.7km<br/>After erosion these gabion baskets now protect the bank of the beck just north of Butterknowle in County Durham
©peter robinson
Dist:0.7km<br/>Taken at the point where the power lines change direction and the pylons follow the line of the former Bishop Auckland to Barnard Castle railway.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.8km<br/>Opened in 1863, closed to passengers 1958. The Station House survives, track, bridge and sidings (to New Copley Coke Works) have gone. Part of the north-bound platform survives.
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.8km<br/>Built in 1862 this railway ran from Bishop Auckland to Barnard Castle. The old station of Haggerleases can be seen far right at the end of the curve. This is now a private residence.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.8km<br/>On Pinfold Lane, top of Diamond Hill
©Hugh Mortimer

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