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Cemetery Lane, STANLEY, DH9 8DU

Harelaw is a little former mining village near Stanley. The church was built in 1840, probably because of expanding population working in the coal industry. It is by G Jackson, in the Early English style.

This fine old house isn't actually a manor; it was built in 1840 as the vicarage for the village of Harelaw. It looks a very grand vicarage for a little village, but in those days Harelaw was a more important place than it is today. It was originally part of the Township of Kyo, which dates from the early middle ages. Many of the surrounding villages didn't exist then; they date only from the 18th or 19th centuries and the start of the coalmining industry.

In the foreground is the former schoolmaster's house (dated 1886), beyond is the school itself (dated 1846). At the far end of the row is Phoenix Court, modern houses sympathetically built in the same style.

The inscription over the door reads "1846 National School". The school closed in 1963 and subsequently fell into disrepair (see Image), but has been restored at some point since 2013.

Harelaw is a former mining village near Stanley. The school was built in 1846 as the Collierley National School by the Church of England. In 1886 it was transferred to the new Kyo School Board and became Harelaw Council School. It was also enlarged and a new schoolmaster's house added. The school closed in 1963.

This was built in 1886, when the school was transferred to the Kyo School Board and enlarged. It was sold off as a private dwelling when the school closed in 1963.

On the Annfield Plain/Dipton border beside the B6168. The bus is emerging from Fondlyset Lane.

Catchgate is a former 'pit village' of County Durham which has all but merged with adjacent villages to form a larger built-up area. The road sign naming the settlement, (typical of a certain style in the county), is attached to a piece of rock carved in the form of a gate with a catch.