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Already the riverbanks are showing evidence of past industrialisation, with former collieries and chemical works. A little further downstream the river passes beneath the
Victoria Viaduct, (formally called the Victoria Bridge). Named after the newly crowned queen, the railway viaduct opened in 1838,
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Two weirs impede the flow of the river at Durham, both originally created for industrial activities. The Old
Fulling Mill was an archaeological museum. The museum moved to Palace Green in July 2014. The second weir, beneath Milburngate Bridge, now includes a salmon leap and fish counter, monitoring
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have been worked and the
Broadwood Quarry recently expanded into ground held on an old licence. The crushing plant continues to operate. A quarry at Bollihope was also mooted on a similar basis but plans seem to have been discontinued. Frosterley Marble was used extensively in church architecture,
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but was surmised by early geologists, and subsequently proven to exist as seen in the
Rookhope borehole. It is the presence of this granite that has retained the high upland elevations of this area (less through its relative hardness, and more due to isostatic equilibrium) and accounts for heavy
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has a substantial residential development and marina. A dolphin nicknamed
Freddie was a frequent visitor to the marina, attracting much local publicity. However, concern was expressed that acclimatising the dolphin to human presence might put at risk the safety of the dolphin regarding the
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at the confluence of
Burnhope Burn and Killhope Burn. The Wear is a spate river and has been heavily influenced by previous government funded drainage schemes (gripping) with a view to improving marginal agricultural land. The river rises very quickly and has experienced much heavy flooding
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is another mineral sporadically co-present with
Weardale Granite and became important in the manufacture of steel from the late 19th century into the 20th century. In many cases the steel industries were able to take fluorite from old excavation heaps. Fluorite explains why iron and steel
601:. Its upper end runs through lead mining country, until this gives way to coal seams of the Durham coalfield for the rest of its length. As a result of limestone quarrying, lead mining and coal mining, the Wear valley was amongst the first places to see the development of railways. The
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and continued into the nineteenth century. Spoil heaps from the abandoned lead mines can still be seen, and since the last quarter of the twentieth century have been the focus of attention for the recovery of
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Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol.41, No.1.
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1911:, Institute of Geological Sciences, 1971, "British Regional Geology: Northern England" Fourth Edition, HMSO, London.
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1682:"North East Place Name Meanings T to Y - England's North East"
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1917:'Wear River', "Encyclopædia Britannica", 17th Edition, 1990.
1654:"A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence - Guide to the Elements"
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Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1837). "poetical illustration".
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1888:Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1837). "picture".
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1271:An engraving of a painting by
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1294:List of rivers of England
1160:Washington Wildfowl Trust
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1741:Durham College Rowing.
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262: /
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1726:26 January
1705:25 January
1666:25 October
1626:References
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616:Mining of
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296:River Wear
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102:Wolsingham
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175:2°13′21″W
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879:and its
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718:Eastgate
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1311:Gallery
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