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590:, cofounder of the Methodist Church, made many visits to Weardale and preached in Wolsingham several times between 1764 and 1790 from a rough stone pulpit at the rear of Whitfield House. The first Wesleyan meeting house was built in 1776 for the Wolsingham Methodist Society and John Wesley preached there. The building was later used as an undertakers and is now part of the outbuildings of Whitfield House. Two further Wesleyan chapels were constructed in 1836 and 1862 and a Wesleyan school was built in the High Street in 1856. People attended from all over the dale and the numbers grew when the Wolsingham steelworks opened. In 1885 a Primitive Methodist chapel was built but went out of use in 1983 when its interior fittings were moved to the USA. St Thomas of Canterbury RC Church was built in 1854 and an associated school in 1864. 144: 615:, but by the early 1960s there were so few cases that it was virtually redundant although the open verandah rooms were still in use. In 1962 the decision was made to transfer elderly patients from Sedgefield Mental Hospital to this beautiful setting. The patients were mainly elderly long-term residents of impaired mental faculty who had no living relatives to care for them, were institutionalised and would have been unable to cope with independent living. When the hospital closed it was redeveloped into four dwellings and the land surrounding the Hall was developed to contain a number of luxury homes. 528: 162: 645:, including special steam services. First built in 1847 by the Stockton and Darlington Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1953, before the Beeching railway review closures of the 1960s. It continued to be used for freight before being finally mothballed in 1993. After much work and investment by new American owners, the heritage railway reopened in 2010 with a special train event running direct from London Kings Cross. 584:. Wolsingham Grammar School is also home to the oldest world-war memorials in the country. The trees surrounding the field leading from the historical Bell Tower have names and were planted by the Head Teacher for each of the pupils of the school that had fallen during the war. The pupils and staff of Wolsingham Grammar School hold a service every Remembrance Day to remember the pupils who fell during the wars. 22: 169: 604:
World Wars. Electric arc furnaces were installed around 1950 but trade declined and the works closed in 1984. Manufacture continued for a time on a smaller scale run by a workers cooperative until it closed for good in 2008. Film of the works in operation in 1962, when it still employed 500, can be seen at
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The Weardale Railway also used to transport up to 150,000 tonnes of high-quality coking coal per year from the Park Wall North surface mine 4 miles away using a new transload facility in Wolsingham, which opened in 2011. There was strong local opposition to the coal depot but planning permission was
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In 1615 a market charter was granted to the bailiff and inhabitants of Wolsingham, and in 1667 the charter was confirmed with the allocation of a piece of land to hold the market and fairs. This market was of considerable importance and offered many facilities to the surrounding district. There were
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Wolsingham Agricultural Society holds its annual show on the first weekend in September, with a daily attendance of more than 30,000. Established in 1763 it is one of the oldest shows in the country and brings in animals and visitors from a wide area. A funfair is held in the town the same weekend
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built an ironworks on the edge of the town, a major employer from 1864, producing steel from Weardale iron ore. Steel castings were produced for use in both shipbuilding and munitions, industries of major importance to the North East. The works made a major contribution to the war effort in both
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Wolsingham was then a thriving community, holding land by servile tenure. There were shepherds, plough-makers, beekeepers, forest keepers, wood turners, carters, etc. They toiled for two purposes – producing corn and other foodstuffs for themselves and supplying the larder of the
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in London, where he was executed in 1644. There is a Roman Catholic church and convent (now converted to housing) in the town, along with large Church of England, Baptist and Methodist congregations.
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finally approved as the lorries avoid the town. Trains ran to a Scunthorpe steelworks, keeping alive the towns connections to steel making. This run ceased in 2015 following the collapse of UK Coal.
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Wolsingham sits at the confluence of the River Wear and Waskerley Beck. It is a small settlement and one of the first market towns in County Durham, potentially deriving its name from the legendary
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was established in 1614, and in 1911 a new building was opened. It is now part of a split-site comprehensive school with another part built from 2014–2015 and opened in 2016 by the
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On the north hillside of Wolsingham Attwood built his home, Holywood Hall. After his death it became a hospital. This was the regional sanatorium for the treatment of
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The oldest houses in Wolsingham are at Whitfield Place on Front Street. There are three cottages, the left-most dated 1677 and with the initials 'DM'.
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Your Heritage - The River Wear. There are plans to fully develop the area after the site was levelled and decontaminated in 2009.
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The other properties here have an even longer history. They are said to have been converted from the former Pack Horse Inn where
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several looms in the town; table linens, draperies, weaving materials and clothes were always in demand. Drapers from
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may have rested on returning from his unfruitful encounter with the Scots in Weardale in April 1327. Another king,
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where it is stated that the saint lived there for almost two years about 1120 AD with Elric the hermit.
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Mistress of Science: The Story of the Remarkable Janet Taylor, Pioneer of Sea Navigation
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The Ironmaster, the Architect and the Priest: Building the Church at Wolsingham
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who amassed a collection from around the world. First honorary member of the
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with many streets closed to traffic to cope with the crowds.
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was their principal pastime. The bishops' hunting forest in
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marks the spot where he was arrested before being taken to
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Wolsingham is located in County Durham
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