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Ripon Terrace, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3NR

These houses are in a very noisy spot, right beside the busy A167. This road used to be even busier, when it was the Great North Road, prior to the opening of the A1M Durham Motorway. The name comes from the time when there was a tollgate here.

View west to the houses on the A167. These form a detached part of the village known as Plawsworth Gate.

St Philip and St James Church was constructed in 1893 in the former pit village of Kimblesworth. There was an earlier church in the medieval village of Kimblesworth which was abandoned in the sixteenth century. It is said that the font is from the old church. It are a traditional Anglican community situated on the edge of Kimblesworth village which is about 3.5 miles from Durham City. The parish includes the villages of Nettlesworth, Plawsworth and Kimblesworth and stretches from the River Wear to the edge of Sacriston

This path runs a short distance through the fields west of Plawsworth Gate to Nettlesworth. There is a wide view to the east over the countryside between Durham and Chester-Le-Street. Note the Sunflowers on the left; an unusual field crop in this part of the world.

A rather surprising find of a field of Sunflowers beside the path leading from Plawsworth Gate to Nettlesworth.

This is St Philip and St Paul's church, opened in 1893 to serve the mining village which had grown up here in the late 19th century. Previously, Kimblesworth had been a small farming community. There seems to be some building work in progress at the moment.

At Plawsworth. Mill lane is a little way south of the rest of the village. There used to be a mill here, but no longer. The track leads to a sewage works.

This road, the B6312, leads from the village to the main A167. The junction can be seen at the end of the road here, with the village of Plawsworth across the other side.

This road runs south through this small ex mining village to the roundabout at the bottom of the street here.