Walk Information E Some steep ascent E Can be muddy E Some of the route is on roads care should be taken to follow the advice of the Highway Code GreenwellGreenwell WalkWalk

DiscoverDiscover thethe beautifulbeautiful sceneryscenery andand richrich Accommodation Information heritageheritage ofof LanchesterLanchester ParishParish Hamsteels Hall and Cottages Take a relaxing break in an elegant Georgian Country House. A Grade II* listed building, full Distance:Distance: 55 MilesMiles of character, dating back to the 1600s when inglenook fireplaces, shuttered windows and panelled rooms were commonplace. Both B&B and self-catering accommodation. For more information contact June or Frank: Tel: 01207 520 388 Quebec, Co. Durham, DH7 9RS Email: [email protected] Website: www.hamsteelshall.co.uk

Car Parking for Greenwell Walk Public car parking is available in Alternative Accommodation Lanchester Village Centre Bee Cottage Guest House, Castleside, Consett, DH8 9HW. Tel: 01207 508 224 email: [email protected] www.beecottage.co.uk Browney Cottage & Browney Close, Hall Hill Farm, Lanchester, Durham, DH7 0TA. Tel: 01388 731 333 www.hallhillfarm.co.uk Kings Head Hotel, Station Road, Lanchester, Co. Durham, DH7 0EX. Tel:01207 520 054 email: [email protected] Pondfield Villa Farm Cottages, Millershill Lane, Rowley, Castleside, Durham, DH8 9HF. Tel: 01207 582 703 email: [email protected] www.pondfieldvillacottage.co.uk Stable Cottage, Colepike Home Farm, Lanchester, Co. Durham, DH7 0RW. Tel: 01207 529 522 email: [email protected] Swallows’ Barn, Biggen House Farm, Esh, County Durham, DH7 9RP. Tel: 0191 373 7864

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The European Agriculture Fund for rural development. Europe investing in rural areas. Lanchester Parish, Co. Durham Design:- www.eg-designs.weebley.com | Layout and print:- www.MKPrint.co.uk Starting from Station Road, officials. The school, tennis courts house. Ice houses were used to store A leaf shaped stone arrowhead made Lanchester take the Lanchester and workers houses have all been perishable food. The hall was home of from flint was found there in the Valley Railway Walk from the demolished. ‘Officials’ Row’ and the William Hedley (1779–1843) designer 18th century (probably Neolithic statue of the Roman Soldier and Miners Welfare Hall are still standing, of the steam train, Puffing Billy and 4000BC–2300). There was a drift mine head towards Durham. and the hall is now a garage. Twenty Wylam Colliery Waggonway (1813–15) at Hollybush and two coal pits in the two men lost their lives at the colliery fields opposite Sqaure House Farm. Lanchester Valley Railway was built including a 13 year old boy employed during the 1860s to carry iron ore Over next stile turn left then as a tub cleaner who fell into the ‘small from Cleveland to the Consett Iron coal’, he was unable to get out and over stile walk diagonally across and Steelworks. The line was closed suffocated. field to next stile. Turn left onto in 1966. Dora’s Wood can be seen on lane, follow over bridge and join the right hand side. The wood was Walk along Officials Row and take footpath on the right. Continue planted in 2000 by the Woodland the path at the end to Malton over four stiles to Bargate, turn Trust and volunteers from Lanchester. Nature Reserve. At second stile right and walk on the roadside It is dedicated to Dora Greenwell turn right, cross next stile into site of the B6301 back to Lanchester. (1821–1882), a poet, who lived at of old colliery school. Engraving of Burnhopeside Hall Please note: Care should be taken Greenwell Ford. The farmland beyond The school stood in the corner of published in 1884 to follow the advice of the highway the wood is part of the Greenwell Ford what is now the nature reserve and code. Take special care as traffic estate. At end of trees turn right through rhododendrons, laurel and loganberries gate and follow footpath along may be moving very fast. remain from the garden. field edge to Biggen House farm. Part of the road is on the route of Dere Continue through farmyard to join Cross stile and follow footpath Street–the main Roman road between lane, turn left then immediately diagonally across two fields, York and the Firth of Forth in Scotland. right and follow lane to Biggen crossing stile in hedgerow between On the right hand side there are views Terrace. fields. to Greenwell Ford (Grade II), (No public The concrete ditch crossing the field Turn right onto Hamsteels Lane. access). Greenwell Ford was built in was built to take water from mine Malton House on the right belonged the early 19th century but is believed workings on the hillside. to the Love family who sank Malton to be on the site of an earlier house Join track to Biggen House farm, Colliery in 1870. You will also pass owned by the Greenwell family. Doctor Blacksmiths Shops, Hamsteels Hall an early 18th century William Greenwell lived there. He Malton Colliery turn right and follow Lane to Biggen terrace. house listed Grade II* (No public was a noted historian, archaeologist © Beamish Museum Ltd. access). and author and was made Canon of Alternatively, continue along the Durham Cathedral in 1854. Canon Either turn right at Malton and railway line and look for views to Turn right from Hamsteels Lane onto footpath, bear left around Greenwell was a keen fisherman, his take the lane over a bridge to Burnhopeside Hall on the left hand famous trout fly ‘The Greenwell Glory’, Officials Row. side (No public access). farmhouse and cross stile. Walk straight to wall and follow is still used by many anglers today. As This was built as terraced housing for The hall is 18th century but was downhill. Over next stile turn right you enter Ford Lane you will notice the workers at Malton colliery which enlarged during the 19th century; it and cross stile into lane. Follow a house called ‘West Park’ on the left operated from 1870s–1960s. There is listed Grade II*. The grounds are lane downhill. Cross stile and hand side. This was re-built using were originally three rows of houses, planted with ornamental trees and head straight downhill towards stone from Crook Hall in Consett by two for the workers and one for the also include a walled garden and ice Hollybush. George Neasham a Victorian historian.

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