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Monument on the site of the important Anglo-Saxon site of Gefrin (morphed over time into Yeavering<\/a>).<\/p>\n The oldest part of the site is the Iron Age hill fort on Yeavering Bell. The wind on the top was ferocious so this can’t have been a very pleasant place to live!<\/p>\n View from a walk in the adjacent College Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n (L) The picturesque village of Ford<\/a> and (R) the Lady Waterford Hall<\/a>, built in 1860 at as the village school by Lady Waterford<\/a>. The Biblical scenes around the walls were painted by Lady Waterford.<\/p>\n (L) Ford church and (R) a curious plaque marking an enlargement of the building, where different sections can be slotted in.<\/p>\n Lounge area in the hotel, the Tankerville Arms.<\/p>\n Pictures from Cragside<\/a>\u00a0(National Trust) and its estate on the return journey.<\/p>\n Pittington<\/strong><\/p>\n The parish church of St. Laurence in Hallgarth, part of a group of small villages east of Durham collectively known as Pittington<\/a>, after former collieries. The church’s most well known feature is its north arcade and 12th C wall paintings. It is believed that the same masons who built the arcade, with its decorative pillars, were also responsible for the magnificent pillars of Durham cathedral.<\/p>\n Aire Valley walk<\/strong><\/p>\n Pictures from a walk from the West Yorkshire market town of Bingley<\/a>, up the Aire<\/a> valley and back round through the St. Ives estate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pictures from a long weekend in mid August in the small Northumberland market town of Wooler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,10],"tags":[94,46,59,135,41,170,28,49,66,151],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-places","category-uk","tag-animals","tag-church","tag-county-durham","tag-hills","tag-lake","tag-national-trust","tag-northumberland","tag-river","tag-trees","tag-west-yorkshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","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=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n