IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Penshaw, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 7NH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to DH4 7NH 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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Image Listing (27 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Penshaw North House Farm
The River Wear is hidden just beyond the farm. Sticking up on the horizon is an office building in the centre of Washington.
Image: © Brian Abbott
Taken: 27 May 2006
0.12 miles
3
The Weardale Way passing beneath Victoria Viaduct
The railway viaduct was built in 1838, the year of Victoria's coronation, and was one of the largest bridges in Europe. It carried trains until 1991, since when it has been mothballed https://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/fatvic.html .
Next to the path an unstable beech tree has been recently felled
Image: © Tim Heaton
Taken: 18 May 2023
0.15 miles
4
Looking upto Victoria Viaduct
A slightly misty scene looking down the River Wear towards the Victoria Viaduct.
Completed in 1836 on a design based on the Alcantara Bridge in Spain, as part of the Durham Junction Railway.
The Beeching axe fell in 1964, when passenger services ceased. 1991 saw the last freight crossing the viaduct, and it has been mothballed ever since.
Grade II Listed.
Image: © Chris Heaton
Taken: 18 May 2023
0.16 miles
5
Low Lambton Farm
Victorian farm at Penshaw.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Apr 2013
0.17 miles
7
Field with emerging crop on slope of Penshaw Hill
The waterlogged field is above Coxgreen Road. The building at the top of Penshaw Hill is the Penshaw Monument, considered to be a a folly. It was built between 1844 and 1845 and is grade 1 listed.
Image: © Trevor Littlewood
Taken: 18 Feb 2021
0.17 miles
8
Victoria Viaduct crossing the River Wear
Victoria Viaduct. Built by the Durham Junction Railway and opened in 1838 to take coal from the Houghton-le-Spring area to the Tyne. As the railways expanded the viaduct became part of the main line from Darlington to Newcastle, before being relegated to a secondary route when the main line took the new route via Durham and Team Valley in 1872. By the 1980s the route was little used except when work on the main line required diversions, finally closing in 1991. Though the track is lifted the line retains a ‘mothballed’ status so has not been severed or built on, and is frequently proposed for reopening either as a heavy rail route or part of the Tyne and Wear Metro.
Image: © David Robinson
Taken: 14 Mar 2023
0.17 miles
9
Weardale Way approaching Victoria Viaduct
A slightly misty scene looking down the River Wear towards the Victoria Viaduct.
Completed in 1836 on a design based on the Alcantara Bridge in Spain, as part of the Durham Junction Railway.
The Beeching axe fell in 1964, when passenger services ceased. 1991 saw the last freight crossing the viaduct, and it has been mothballed ever since.
Grade II Listed.
Image: © Chris Heaton
Taken: 18 May 2023
0.17 miles
10
The Weardale Way towards Fatfield
After the January 2010 snowstorm a difficult route for these walkers adjacent to the southern side of the River Wear in Sunderland
Image: © Peter Robinson
Taken: 17 Jan 2010
0.18 miles