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Clavering Place, Annfield Plain
This estate was built in the late 1930's as council housing to replace the streets of old timber miners houses which formerly stood here. It is on the south side of West Road, near the centre of the village. The name commemorates the Clavering family who resided at nearby Greencroft Hall.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 6 Jan 2020
0.08 miles
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Entrance to playing fields
A short cut from the old railway path onto these playing fields in front of Clavering Place estate at Annfield Plain.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 6 Jan 2020
0.08 miles
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Shaped gable end, Northgate
This is the south end of Northgate Terrace in Annfield Plain. The terraced street joins the cross street at an angle and the house has been continued right to the boundary line, resulting in this interestingly shaped gable end. The street is Edwardian in date, like much of the old village centre.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 6 Jan 2020
0.12 miles
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Old terraced street in Annfield Plain
This is Northgate, which runs west off Station Road. A typical late C19 terrace, built for the miners who worked in the local pits.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Jul 2018
0.13 miles
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West Road, Annfield Plain
This is the east end of West Road, where it joins Front Street. This part of the village is basically Edwardian, built from about 1900 up to the start of WW1 in 1914.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 6 Jan 2020
0.14 miles
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The former Railway pub in Annfield Plain
This is located on the corner of Front Street and West Road, which leads off on the left of the picture. The building dates from 1899, as can be seen on the inscription over the door, when it was rebuilt. The original Railway Hotel had stood here since the 1850's. It was known as the Railway up to the 1980's, and then had various names until it closed as a pub a few years ago.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Jul 2018
0.15 miles
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Station Road in Annfield Plain
Looking west along to the crossroads with West Road on the left and Front Street on the right. The street leading down from the left is Northgate. This is the centre of this former mining village.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Jul 2018
0.16 miles
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Heathland pond at Greencroft
This is on the nature reserve of Greencroft Heath at Annfield Plain. This is a small surviving area of lowland heath, now a rare habitat in County Durham. This picture shows the pond in winter; it shrinks a lot in the summer.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 6 Jan 2020
0.16 miles
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Path junction on the old Consett and Sunderland railway
At this point, a horse stile gives access to the cutting through which the former Consett and Sunderland Railway ran. But the C2C cycle route (National Cycle Network route) which largely follows the course of the railway, here diverges towards a bridge which takes the path over the A693.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 11 Jul 2022
0.17 miles
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Front Street in Annfield Plain
A view looking north along the village main street from the corner of West Road. The big building in the centre is The Queens Head Hotel. The building on the right was once a bank, one of two bank branches in the village. Both now closed, unfortunately.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Jul 2018
0.17 miles