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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...
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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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Slitt Mine,
Westgate Middlehope Shield,
Westgate Brandon Walls Mine,
Rookhope Rookhope Old
Smelt Mill
Feldon Smelt Mill
Coldberry Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale...
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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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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...
- 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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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...
- The
Rookhope Ryde, a
County Durham border ballad,
recounts an
incursion by
Tynedale reivers into
Rookhope, a
Weardale side valley....
- 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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Pennine place-names are
found in his work,
including Cauldron Snout and
Rookhope. An area of 770
square miles (2,000 km2) in the
North Pennines was designated...
