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NER<\/a> station office at Beamish Museum<\/a> (mid Jan). The station buildings<\/a> were relocated from the tiny hamlet of Rowley – the station closed to passenger traffic in 1939, well before the Beeching Axe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hardwick Park & Bishop’s Fen walk<\/a> from the Brightwater set of waymarked walks. (L) Carved entrance to Hardwick Hall Country Park<\/a> (Temple of Minerva on the skyline). (R) Wetland (Bishops’ Fen?) lit by winter sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter sunset (early Feb) on the return to Coxhoe<\/a> after a walk to Garmondsway<\/a>, orbiting the enormous Garmondsway Quarry. Reputedly Cnut<\/a> chose Garmondsway as the point to finish a pilgrimage to Durham cathedral (or rather its Anglo-Saxon predecessor) by walking barefoot. Presumably 7 miles was an appropriate balance between piety and discomfort! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flass Vale<\/a> in early Feb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Descending towards Lanchester<\/a> (late Feb) with Burnhope transmitter<\/a> just visible in the background. Originally built as a 100 kW transmitting station for the original 405-line television signal<\/a>, it is now purely a radio transmitter. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Accommodation bridge for the abandoned Durham to Bishop Auckland railway line<\/a> (mid March). A little further down the line is the “Bishop’s Bridge”, a strange double-width bridge reputedly built to allow Bishop Lightfoot to cross his parkland without having to see the railway line!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Vessels of Life” at Durham Botanic Garden<\/a> (mid Mar).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arnside Station<\/a> in late March, from a return visit to Arnside<\/a> and Arnside Knott<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[106,63,59,41,79,80,131,134,66],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-local","tag-art","tag-bridge","tag-county-durham","tag-lake","tag-museum","tag-night","tag-park","tag-station","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}