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Scheduled Monuments in County Durham

  1. 'The Castles' (camp)
    South Bedburn
  2. A cairn and a carved rock on a prominent knoll, south of the road from Barningham to East Hope, 690m
    Hope
  3. A cairn and a carved rock west of Cowclose Gill, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 460m west of Haythwaite,
    Hope
  4. A cairn and a rubble bank in Scale Knoll Allotment, 510m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
    Hope
  5. A cairn on a knoll east of Woodclose Gill, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 785m north east of Black Hill G
    Hope
  6. A cairn on the summit of a knoll, in the southwest corner of Scale Knoll Allotment,800m south east o
    Hope
  7. A cairn, a carved rock, and a rubble bank, in the south west corner of Scale Knoll Allotment, 800m s
    Hope
  8. A cairn, east of Scale Knoll Allotment, 260m south west of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  9. A carved rock and boulder walling, near the south wall of Scale Knoll Allotment, 500m north east of
    Hope
  10. A carved rock between The Stang Forest boundary wall and Woodclose Gill, 750m south east of Far East Photos
    Hope
  11. A carved rock with at least 12 cups, 560m north of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
    Hunderthwaite
  12. A carved rock with one cup, at the east side of Woodclose Gill, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 500m north
    Hope
  13. A cup and groove marked rock, east of Woodclose Gill, 645m north east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham
    Hope
  14. A cup marked rock with 13 cups and a groove, on a knoll in Scale Knoll Allotment, 700m north east of
    Hope
  15. A group of six shielings and tracks on Holwick Scars, 280m west of Hungry Hall
    Holwick
  16. A palisaded hilltop enclosure, a carved rock and a small enclosure, 480m north west of Brier Dykes,
    Hunderthwaite
  17. A prehistoric carved rock with four cups 620m north of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
    Hunderthwaite
  18. A rock with a cup and a groove, in the south west corner of Scale Knoll Allotment, 790m south east o
    Hope
  19. A rock with cups and rings in Scale Knoll Allotment, 790m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
    Hope
  20. A rock with three grooves and five cups with rings, in Scale Knoll Allotment, 800m WSW of Haythwaite
    Hope
  21. A Roman period native settlement, prehistoric carved rock and an iron smelting site on Knott Hill, 7
    Marwood
  22. Aldin Grange (or Bearpark) Bridge
    Bearpark
  23. Allensford blast furnace
    Consett South Ward
  24. Area of carved bedrock 120m south of The Rigg
    Lartington
  25. Barforth Bridge Photos
    Barforth
  26. Barnard Castle Bridge Photos
    Startforth
  27. Barnard Castle: ringwork, shell keep castle, chapel and dovecote Photos
    Barnard Castle
  28. Beldon lead mine and ore works at Beldon Shields
    Hunstanworth
  29. Binchester Roman fort (Vinovia)
    Coundon Ward
  30. Bobgins engine house 250m south west of New House, Causey
    Stanley
  31. Bowes Castle Photos
    Bowes
  32. Bradley Hall fortified house and underground passages, moated site, pillow mound and fishponds
    Wolsingham
  33. Brandon Walls lead mine and ore works Photos
    Stanhope
  34. Burial cairns, burnt mound, Roman native settlement, medieval settlement with field system and iron
    Holwick
  35. Burnt mound 570m east of Widdy Bank Farm
    Forest and Frith
  36. Burnt mound at Knott Well 370m north east of Stotley Grange
    Middleton in Teesdale
  37. Burnt mound between Knottwell Sike and Bell Sike, 420m north east of Stotley Grange
    Middleton in Teesdale
  38. Burnt mound on the south bank of Scar Beck, 510m south west of Mizzes House
    Holwick
  39. Burnt mound, cairnfield and bloomery at Eel Beck, 480m south of Blackmea Crag, Holwick Fell
    Holwick
  40. Cairn at West Moor Bottom, Mudbeck
    Bowes
  41. Cairn near the summit of a low ridge, 850m south west of Cocker Stake Nook, Hope Moor
    Hope
  42. Cairn on a low ridge on the east side of Ravock, Bowes Moor, 860m west south west of West Stoney Kel
    Bowes
  43. Cairn on a prominent knoll and cairnfield to its south east on Ravock, Bowes Moor
    Bowes
  44. Cairn on the north side of Ravock, Bowes Moor, 600m west of West Stoney Keld
    Bowes
  45. Cairn south of Cross Gill, 645m south east of Black Hill Gate, Barningham Moor
    Hope
  46. Cairn, 545m ESE of Bragg House, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  47. Cairn, 625m SSE of Bragg House, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  48. Cairn, 650m SSE of Bragg House, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  49. Cairnfield and associated remains, 250m south east of Bragg House, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  50. Cairnfield on Crawley Edge, 500m north west of Hill Crest
    Stanhope
  51. Cairnfield on Ravock, 600m south east of Ravock Castle, Bowes Moor
    Bowes
  52. Cairnfield on Ravock, 880m north west of Rovegill House
    Bowes
  53. Cairnfield on the north east slope of Ravock, Bowes Moor
    Bowes
  54. Cairnfield partly enclosed by a bank, on the east side of Woodclose Gill, Scale Knoll Allotment, Bar
    Hope
  55. Cambokeels medieval site
    Stanhope
  56. Camp at High Northgate
    Stanhope
  57. Carved bedrock with cups and grooves 170m south east of The Rigg
    Lartington
  58. Carved rock 160m north west of Abbey Farm
    Egglestone Abbey
  59. Carved rock 380m ENE of Bragg House, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  60. Carved rock and cairn in Rowley Intake, 410m south east of Cowclose House, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  61. Carved rock and prehistoric enclosure on west side of Scale Knoll Gill, 410m south west of Haythwait
    Barningham
  62. Carved rock and Romano-British settlement known as Greystone, 250m south of Moorcock Farm, Barningha
    Barningham
  63. Carved rock in West Pasture 385m south west of The Rigg Photos
    Lartington
  64. Carved rock north of Washbeck Green, 570m south of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  65. Carved rock with one cup and four grooves 260m south west of The Rigg
    Lartington
  66. Carved rock, cist and cairnfield 580m west of Hindon Edge
    Langleydale and Shotton
  67. Carved rocks in Stobgreen Plantation
    Eggleston
  68. Carved rocks, cairnfield and rubble banks on the terrace south of Scale Knoll Allotment, immediately
    Hope
  69. Castle Steads camp
    Cornsay
  70. Causey Arch, Tanfield
    Stanley
  71. Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
    Elvet and Gilesgate Ward
  72. Chester New Bridge
    Bournmoor
  73. Coal mining remains in Mallygill Wood
    West Rainton
  74. Coke ovens at Inkerman Farm
    Cornsay
  75. Coldberry lead mine and associated hushes Photos
    Newbiggin
  76. Collierley Chapel
    Burnopfield and Dipton Ward
  77. Concangium Roman fort Photos
    Chester-le-Street East Ward
  78. Cotherstone Castle
    Cotherstone
  79. Coxhoe medieval settlement, 170m south west of East House Farm
    Kelloe
  80. Crosshill Stone at Grains o' th' Beck
    Lunedale
  81. Croxdale medieval chapel and churchyard cross base Photos
    Croxdale and Hett
  82. Cup and groove marked rock 450m WNW of Howgill Grange, Baldersdale
    Hunderthwaite
  83. Cup and groove marked rock 590m north of Brier Dykes, Baldersdale
    Hunderthwaite
  84. Cup and groove marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 920m south east of Pitcher House
    Cotherstone
  85. Cup and groove marked rock on the south bank of Scaletree Gill, 560m north west of Park House Farm,
    Hunderthwaite
  86. Cup and ring marked rock 130m south west of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Cotherstone
  87. Cup and ring marked rock 80m south of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Cotherstone
  88. Cup and ring marked rock on Cotherstone Moor 520m north west of East Loups's
    Cotherstone
  89. Cup and ring marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m south east of Pitcher House
    Cotherstone
  90. Cup and ring marked rock on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 870m south south east of Pitcher Ho
    Cotherstone
  91. Cup marked rock 100m north of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Cotherstone
  92. Cup marked rock on the summit of the hill, 420m west of Howgill Grange
    Hunderthwaite
  93. Cup marked rock outcrop at the base of a wall 120m east of East Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Cotherstone
  94. Cup marked rocks and cairnfield at Bracken Heads, 380m north east of Folly Head
    Eggleston
  95. Cup ring and groove marked rock outcrop at Toby Wall, 260m north east of West Loups's, Cotherstone M
    Cotherstone
  96. Cup, ring and groove marked rock 170m south west of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Cotherstone
  97. Cup, ring and groove marked rock 310m west of East Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Cotherstone
  98. Cup, ring and groove marked rock on Kearton Rigg, 430m south of West Loups's, Cotherstone Moor
    Bowes
  99. Dalden Tower: a medieval fortified manor house and related earthworks
    Seaham
  100. Deepdale Bridge Photos
    Startforth
  101. Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park Photos
    Bishop Auckland
  102. Derwentcote steel cementation furnace, iron finery forge and drift coal mine
    Leadgate and Medomsley Ward
  103. Deserted medieval village and field system at Garmondsway
    Kelloe
  104. Deserted medieval village, moated site, and early medieval timber building at Castle Eden, 200m sout
    Castle Eden
  105. Deserted village
    Mordon
  106. Ebchester (Vindomora) Roman station Photos
    Leadgate and Medomsley Ward
  107. Edmundbyers Cross, Muggleswick Common, 1460m west of Heather Lea
    Muggleswick
  108. Egglestone Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: inner precinct, monastic enclosures and post-medieval Photos
    Egglestone Abbey
  109. Elvet Bridge Photos
    Elvet and Gilesgate Ward
  110. Enclosed hilltop settlement on Pig Hill, 600m south west of High Fallowfield
    South Hetton
  111. Enclosure north west of Old Park House
    Stanhope
  112. Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell
    Cockfield
  113. Esh Cross 150m north of Esh Hall
    Esh
  114. Feldon Smelt Mill
    Muggleswick
  115. Finchale Priory Benedictine cell: hermitage, monastic precinct and site of priory watermill
    Framwellgate Moor
  116. Four areas of carving on a rock outcrop 200m south west of The Rigg
    Lartington
  117. Four carved rocks on Blake Hill, 520m NNW of Hill Gill Farm, Baldersdale
    Mickleton
  118. Framwellgate Bridge Photos
    Elvet and Gilesgate Ward
  119. Friarside Chapel
    Burnopfield and Dipton Ward
  120. Grange and Chapel, Bear Park
    Bearpark
  121. Green Hurth lead mine and ore works
    Forest and Frith
  122. Greta Bridge
    Rokeby
  123. Greta Bridge Roman fort, vicus and section of Roman road
    Rokeby
  124. Group of eight shielings and a track on Crossthwaite Scars 675m north west of Park End
    Newbiggin
  125. Harbour House Chapel
    Kimblesworth and Plawsworth
  126. Harperley Working Camp, World War II prisoner of war camp at Craigside
    Wolsingham
  127. Haswell Colliery engine house, 180m north west of Plough Farm
    Haswell
  128. Hedleyhill Colliery coke works, 500m south west of Hazlet House
    Hedleyhope
  129. High Haswell Chapel 300m south east of Low Haswell
    Haswell
  130. Hut circle and enclosure 350m north west of Tarn Dub
    Forest and Frith
  131. Iron Age cemetery, early medieval enclosure and medieval farmstead with a long boundary, Middle Hurt
    Forest and Frith
  132. Kepier Hospital
    Belmont
  133. Lady's Rake lead mine
    Forest and Frith
  134. Lanchester Roman fort (Longovicium)
    Lanchester
  135. Late prehistoric ditched, scarp-edge settlement 400m south-south-west of East Mellwaters farmhouse
    Gilmonby
  136. Late prehistoric walled settlement 200m south-south-east of East Mellwaters farmhouse
    Gilmonby
  137. Lead mining remains at Ramshaw
    Hunstanworth
  138. Legs Cross
    Bolam
  139. Ludworth Tower
    Shadforth
  140. Maiden Castle promontory fort
    Durham South Ward
  141. Maiden's Bower round cairn
    Neville's Cross Ward
  142. Manorial settlement, fishponds and field system, 200m south west of Layton House
    Sedgefield
  143. Market cross, 35m and 50m south of St Thomas' Church
    Stanhope
  144. Medieval chapel 350m south east of Castle Farm
    Scargill
  145. Medieval church site and churchyard cross, 10m south and 40m south east of St Michael's Church
    Barningham
  146. Medieval farmstead 330m north west of Water Knott
    Hunderthwaite
  147. Medieval farmstead 390m south of Lodge Sike Farm
    Middleton in Teesdale
  148. Medieval farmstead and two prehistoric carved rocks at West Loup's
    Cotherstone
  149. Medieval farmstead at High Knott, 380m west of West Force Garth
    Forest and Frith
  150. Medieval farmstead at Pasture Foot, 510m north west of Bleabeck Force
    Forest and Frith
  151. Medieval farmstead, bloomery, charcoal pits and late prehistoric settlement at Pasture Foot, 300m we
    Forest and Frith
  152. Medieval iron industry and settlement and Bronze Age burial cairns extending from 260m north west of
    Holwick
  153. Medieval linear earthwork, enclosures and farmstead and Bronze Age burnt mound 110m and 420m north w
    Eggleston
  154. Medieval settlement
    Wolsingham
  155. Medieval settlement and open field system at Old Wingate
    Wheatley Hill
  156. Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Hutton Hall
    Hutton Magna
  157. Middle Greenlaws Level lead mine and ore works
    Stanhope
  158. Middleham Castle Photos
    Bishop Middleham
  159. Middlehope Shield and Low Slit lead mines and ore works
    Stanhope
  160. Moated site at Low Butterby Farm
    Croxdale and Hett
  161. Monastic grange at Priory Farm
    Muggleswick
  162. Neville's Cross
    Neville's Cross Ward
  163. Newton Cap Bridge
    Bishop Auckland
  164. Old Hall
    Burnhope
  165. Old Rookhope ore hearth lead smeltmill, 630m north west of Lintzgarth Plantation
    Stanhope
  166. Old Thornley medieval settlement, open field system and hollow way, 110m north of Thornley Hall Farm
    Thornley
  167. Packhorse bridge Photos
    Headlam
  168. Park Level lead mine with ore works on Killhope Burn
    Stanhope
  169. Penny Hill camp
    Langleydale and Shotton
  170. Pike Law lead hushes and mines
    Newbiggin
  171. Prebend's Bridge Photos
    Elvet and Gilesgate Ward
  172. Prehistoric defended settlement 500m north west of West Holme House
    Cotherstone
  173. Prehistoric enclosure 530m and a rubble bank 500m east of Haythwaite in Scale Knoll Allotment, Barni
    Hope
  174. Prehistoric enclosure on the west side of Scale Knoll Gill, 400m WSW of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
    Hope
  175. Prehistoric settlement and associated remains including carved rocks and a stone circle 400m north w
    Hope
  176. Prehistoric settlement and burnt mound at Bleabeck Washfold
    Forest and Frith
  177. Prehistoric settlement, two burnt mounds and a burial cairn on the north bank of Blackmea Crag Sike,
    Holwick
  178. Prehistoric settlements and cairnfield, medieval farmsteads, bloomeries and charcoal pits, 840m sout
    Forest and Frith
  179. Prior's Hall, Hallgarth
    Pittington
  180. Remains of Roman aqueduct
    Lanchester
  181. Remains of St Michael's Church, 50m north west of Dairy Bridge, Rokeby Park
    Rokeby
  182. Rey Cross Roman temporary camp and signal station, and prehistoric stone circle
    Bowes
  183. Rey Cross, 670m west of Old Spital
    Bowes
  184. Ring cairn 350m east of Haythwaite, Barningham Moor
    Barningham
  185. Ring cairn at the northern end of Scale Knoll Allotment, 750m WNW of Haythwaite
    Hope
  186. Ring cairn on Goldsborough, Cotherstone Moor, 840m south of Pitcher House
    Cotherstone
  187. Rock with many cup marks on the east bank of How Beck, 450m north west of West Loups's, Cotherstone
    Cotherstone
  188. Rock with one cup on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m north west of West Loups's
    Cotherstone
  189. Roman aqueduct, prehistoric field systems, cairnfield, enclosure and round cairn on Ravock
    Bowes
  190. Roman Fort (Lavatrae)
    Bowes
  191. Roman period native farmstead at Hind Gate, 140m south of Green House
    Holwick
  192. Roman period native settlement and a bloomery 160m north west of Bleabeck Force
    Forest and Frith
  193. Roman period native settlement and field system 260m west of Wynch Bridge
    Newbiggin
  194. Roman period native settlement at Calf Holm, immediately west of Dine Holm Scar
    Forest and Frith
  195. Roman period native settlement, medieval bloomery, building and track, and a charcoal pit at Keld Sm
    Holwick
  196. Roman period native settlements and field system, hut circle, bloomeries, lead smelting site and cha
    Forest and Frith
  197. Roman shrine on Scargill Moor
    Gilmonby
  198. Roman signal station 190m north west of Vale House Farm
    Bowes
  199. Roman signal station and camp 270m north east of Bowes Moor Hotel
    Bowes
  200. Romano-British and medieval settlement and field systems,leadmines and charcoal pit on Crossthwaite
    Holwick
  201. Romano-British hut circle and enclosing bank and ditch immediately east of High Force Quarry
    Forest and Frith
  202. Romano-British settlement 740m WNW of Old Spital
    Bowes
  203. Romano-British settlement site to the east and south-east of East Mellwaters farmhouse
    Gilmonby
  204. Scargill fortified house, medieval settlement and associated field system
    Scargill
  205. Settlement south west of Harbour House Farm
    Kimblesworth and Plawsworth
  206. Sheraton medieval settlement and open field system
    Sheraton with Hulam
  207. Sherburnhouse Bridge
    Shincliffe
  208. St Botolph's Chapel, 280m north east of Frosterley Bridge
    Stanhope
  209. St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote Photos
    Barforth
  210. Stanhope Bridge Photos
    Stanhope
  211. Stockton & Darlington Railway: Belts Gill embankment, lower part of the northern Etherley Incline
    Etherley
  212. Stockton & Darlington Railway: Brusselton Inclines
    Shildon
  213. Stockton & Darlington Railway: Etherley Inclines, summit and upper sections
    West Auckland Ward
  214. Stockton & Darlington Railway: lower section of the southern Etherley Incline
    West Auckland Ward
  215. Stockton & Darlington Railway: route alongside the River Gaunless
    West Auckland
  216. Stone circle 650m south west of Lune Head Farm Photos
    Lunedale
  217. Sunderland Bridge, near Croxdale Photos
    Croxdale and Hett
  218. The Christening Stone, 160m east of Doe Park
    Cotherstone
  219. The Water Gate Photos
    Elvet and Gilesgate Ward
  220. Thorsgill Beck packhorse bridge Photos
    Egglestone Abbey
  221. Three cairns on Ravock, Bowes Moor, 830m north east of Ravock Castle
    Bowes
  222. Three prehistoric carved rocks on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, 860m SSE Pitcher House
    Cotherstone
  223. Tower house in the churchyard of St James's Church
    Hunstanworth
  224. Two burnt mounds 350m north east of Stotley Grange
    Middleton in Teesdale
  225. Two burnt mounds south of Blackmea Crag Sike, 590m south west of Castle House
    Holwick
  226. Two carved rocks east of West Pasture, 335m south west of The Rigg
    Lartington
  227. Two Romano-British hut circles and three shielings on Holwick Scars 250m south of Hungry Hall
    Holwick
  228. Unenclosed hut circle settlement, two round cairns, medieval transhumance settlement and two pillow
    Bowes
  229. Unenclosed settlement, 260m south east of Cowclose House, Barnigham Moor
    Barningham
  230. Westgate Castle
    Stanhope
  231. Whorlton suspension bridge Photos
    Whorlton
  232. Yoden medieval settlement
    Peterlee

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