The combination of very indifferent weather and the busy exams season has meant a pretty thin crop of photos of late. Hence this rather random collection.
Tagged: Durham
A set of pictures from the Claypath / Gilesgate area (north and east of the centre of Durham)
A little-appreciated feature of Castle (or University) College [54 46 33 N, 1 34 36 W] is that a couple of rooms are reserved per paying guests and not let out to students (for reasons that will be obvious!). Although the service and mod cons may not be quite to hotel standards, the two “state rooms” (the Chaplain’s suite and the Bishop’s suite) can’t be matched for “character”…
Donated by the Bishop of Durham to the newly-founded university of the mid 19th century, Great High Wood [54 45 36 N, 1 34 21 W] has been gradually encroached upon by university buildings but is still a calm area of hilly deciduous woodland just to the south of the city.
