{"id":49,"date":"2007-04-08T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","slug":"great-high-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Great High Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/great-high-wood-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Great_High_Wood-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Great High Wood\" title=\"Great High Wood\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4519\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/fallen-tree\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Fallen_tree-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen tree\" title=\"Fallen tree\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fallen tree on the route of the old wagon-way [54 45 27 N, 1 34 14 W] that connected the small collieries of Croxdale, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmm.org.uk\/colliery\/h033.htm\">Houghall<\/a> and Shincliffe.  It was from such wagon-ways in the North-East of England that the modern railway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeasthistory.co.uk\/the_north_east\/history\/echomemories\/durham\/203\/090503.html\">originated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/alpacas\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/alpacas-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"alpacas\" title=\"alpacas\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, alpacas (or possibly llamas?) are not native to County Durham&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/spring-buds\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/spring-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Spring buds\" title=\"Spring buds\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4517\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/daffodills\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Daffodills-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Daffodills\" title=\"Daffodills\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4514\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/gorse\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Gorse-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gorse\" title=\"Gorse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Signs of Spring: buds on trees, daffodils and <a title=\"Wikipedia on gorse\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gorse\">gorse<\/a> flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/04\/great-high-wood\/hallgarth-street\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Hallgarth_street-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hallgarth street\" title=\"Hallgarth street\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>End of the tour: view down Hallgarth street from Mountjoy hill [54 46 4 N, 1 34 1 W].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94,72,40,35,66],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic","tag-animals","tag-durham","tag-industry","tag-plants","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}