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Rookhope is a
village in the
civil parish of Stanhope, in
County Durham, England. A
former lead and
fluorspar mining community, it
first existed as a group...
- the west of
Rookhope. The
Lintzgarth smeltmill was
built in 1737 and was used for
smelting lead by all of the
leadmines in the
Rookhope valley. The poisonous...
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industry figure in many of his poems; the
remote decaying mining village of
Rookhope was for him a "sacred landscape",
evoked in a late poem, "Amor Loci". Until...
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source of inspiration. One
place he visited,
Rookhope, is also the
setting of a
border ballad, 'The
Rookhope Ryde',
which describes in some
detail how in...
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descending from
Bolts Law
engine to
Rookhope.
Locomotives were in use on the
Parkhead side of the incline. From
Rookhope the line
turned south climbing the...
- Consett.
Beyond Rowley, line
split between original route to
Stanhope and
Rookhope via
Waskerley and NER-built
deviation to Wear
Valley Junction via Tow Law...
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tenders for the
construction of a
parsonage at
Rookhope, Durham. It is now a hotel,
known as
Rookhope Vicarage. The
foundation stone for this school,...
- Douglas" (Child 176) 4007. "The Earl of Westmoreland" (Child 177) 4008. "
Rookhope Ryde" (Child 179) 4009. "King
James and Brown" (Child 180) 4010. "Willie...
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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...
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northern Pennines, was
first detected by
gravity survey.
Drilling of the
Rookhope borehole subsequently confirmed the
existence of this
substantial body...
