IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Avenue Vivian, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6HY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Avenue Vivian, DH4 6HY by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (18 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Avenue Vivian, Fencehouses
Avenue Vivian, part of a housing development in Fencehouses, near Houghton-le-Spring
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 29 Aug 2011
0.06 miles
2
Acacia Avenue, Fencehouses
Houses in Acacia Avenue, Fencehouses.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 29 Aug 2011
0.09 miles
3
Empty Houses
Row of empty houses on Avenue Vivian
Image: © Gary Fellows
Taken: 9 Sep 2016
0.10 miles
4
Brancepeth Avenue, Fencehouses
Housing in Fencehouses, near Houghton-le-Spring. Although they look like houses, a closer look shows that each one has two front doors. This suggests that they may be flats.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 29 Aug 2011
0.13 miles
7
Acacia Avenue, Fencehouses
Bungalows and semi-detached houses in Fencehouses, near Houghton-le-Spring.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 29 Aug 2011
0.17 miles
9
Fencehouses railway station (site), County Durham
Opened in 1841 by the Durham Junction Railway on the line from Washington to Rainton Meadows, local services initially ran to Gateshead. From 1844, the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway via Leamside connected to this line just south of Fencehouses, and so it became part of the East Coast Main Line from London to Newcastle (until 1872 when the current line via Durham was opened).
View north towards Penshaw and Newcastle. The station had two parallel platforms on the far side of the former level crossing. It was demolished in 1966 but the track was in situ until 2012.
For more information, see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/fencehouses/index.shtml
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 29 May 2021
0.19 miles
10
Site of level crossing, Fencehouses
The railway through Fencehouses lost its regular passenger trains in the 1960s. The line remained in use, both for freight trains and occasionally for diverted passenger trains on days when the main line through Durham and Chester-le-Street was closed for engineering work. The line became disused in around 1992.
Although no maintenance work was carried out, this railway line was still owned by Network Rail. When this image was taken, it was being retained in case there was a need to bring it back into use in future. Although much of the track was atill intact when this image was taken, here at Fencehouses it had already been covered over with tarmac at the site of a level crossing. The rest of the track was lifted about a year after this image was taken.
The railway route is also the border between Tyne & Wear (this side of the crossing) and County Durham (on the far side). The blue sign just beyond the crossing is the sign for County Durham.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 29 Aug 2011
0.20 miles