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Bedlington was once the capital of Bedlingtonshire, and as a part of the County Palatine of Durham belonged to the Bishops of Durham until 1844.

When the mining industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 127 active pits in County Durham employing 108,000 mineworkers.

By the early 1920s Bishop Auckland was one of only a handful of 18-hole courses in County Durham; many, such as Barnard Castle, Felling, Ravensworth, Fence Houses (Lambton Collieries), and Durham City

Six miles from Durham and twelve miles from Darlington, Ferryhill was only a hamlet until the development of Dean & Chapter Colliery.

A line of mainly 18th- and 19th-century cottages line the banks of the mighty River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, a small settlement to the south of Darlington and very close to the borders of County Durham.

On the upper reaches of the Wear and once a part of County Durham, Washington was where William Doxford built his first ships before moving to Pallion in the 1870s.

An ancient village, Wolviston lies close to Wynyard Hall, historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

Sir Robert Lumley was granted licences to crenellate in 1389 and 1392, making Lumley, along with Raby, County Durham's two late 14th-century castles.

It was the second Gothic Revival building to be completed in County Durham; the style had become fashionable thanks to Horace Walpole, who had used it to great effect at his own house, Strawberry Hill,

It holds the distinction of being the largest parish church in County Durham. Dating

When this picture was taken, Ryton was a pit village in County Durham with no less than five working pits in the immediate vicinity.

There was a church built of stone on the site as early as 1056; before that, Saxon bishops ruled County Durham from Chester-le-Street's timber-built monastic cathedral, where the bones of St Cuthbert himself

Sir Robert Lumley was granted licences to crenellate in 1389 and 1392, making Lumley, along with Raby, one of County Durham's two late 14th-century castles.

The street is unusually wide and spacious for Durham; it was further extended in the 1960s, when road development saw the demise of the Waterloo Hotel, the building beyond the Royal County

The Gothic-arched County Bridge straddles what was the old border between Yorkshire and the Palatinate of Durham.

Situated six miles north-west of Barnard Castle, Romaldkirk in 1898 was not in fact in County Durham but in the North Riding of Yorkshire.