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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.

Both locomotives are now housed in the Darlington Railway Centre & Museum, North Road Station.

This amazingly small- scale country lane is now not only surfaced and widened but installed with traffic-calming cushions to curb speed on the main Richmond-Darlington road.

Designed and built by George Stephenson, Stockton and Darlington No 1, 'Locomotion', achieved a speed of 15mph when he hauled the 34-wagon inaugural train from Shildon to Stockton on 27 September 1825.

In the second half of the 19th century, Darlington was growing fast, attracting industry and business.

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

Designed and built by George Stephenson, Stockton & Darlington No 1, 'Locomotion', achieved a maximum speed of 15mph when she hauled the 34-wagon inaugural train from Shildon to Stockton on 27 September

At Darlington his shoes gave out, and he had to buy another pair. He later told Drummond that they took some breaking in and left his feet sore and blistered for several days.

Designed and built by George Stephenson, Stockton and Darlington No 1, 'Locomotion', achieved a speed of 15mph when he hauled the 34-wagon inaugural train from Shildon to Stockton on 27 September 1825.

Bondgate gets its name from the area of the town where the bishop of Durham's bond tenants once lived; it was once a separate manor from Darlington.

This large village, just off the ancient Roman Road of Dere Street, later the Great North Road and the A1, lies near the Durham border west of Darlington.

It stands to the east of Darlington on a tributary of the mighty Tees, crossed here by the village bridge.

Situated six miles west of Darlington, Piercebridge is unusual in that the village was built within the ramparts of a Roman fort that once guarded the bridge over the Tees carrying the road between York

Stockton was granted its market charter by Bishop Bek in 1310, but until the 1840s it consisted of little more than the High Street, a few side streets, and a quayside railhead for Stockton & Darlington

Joseph (1799-1872) was the second son of Edward Pease (1767-1858), and was the first treasurer of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway Company built the Zetland Hotel as a flagship project, hoping to attract other developers to the town as the concept of a new spa resort was being pursued.

In the days of horse-drawn trams Darlington Street was considered wide enough for a single line only, and here inbound and outbound cars have made use of the passing loop.

The principal centres were the North Road Works of Darlington, Shildon Wagon Works, and locomotive manufacturers Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn, who were based at Gateshead.

This village was once on the Darlington to Richmond railway line before its closure in 1969. The once thriving mill closed in 1947, and the Manor House, later used as a brewery, went in 1956.

This amazingly small- scale country lane is now not only surfaced and widened but installed with traffic-calming cushions to curb speed on the main Richmond-Darlington road.

In the days of horse-drawn trams Darlington Street was considered wide enough for a single line only, and here inbound and outbound cars have made use of the passing loop.

Then in 1965 BR suddenly closed North Road Works, Darlington. With private locomotive manufacturing also in decline, only Shildon was left with anything like a substantial workforce.

Set back from the A66, the King's Arms with its stables and courtyard to the rear was once a coaching- house serving travellers on the Penrith to Darlington turnpike, a route linking the

There was a time when Barnard Castle was one of a number of prosperous towns in the Palatinate; the others were Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sedgefield, Staindrop and Wolsingham.