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Kimberley Street, BISHOP AUCKLAND, DL14 8UA

A row of old miners bungalows.

A row of former miners bungalows.

Carries the Darlington to Bishop Auckland Railway.

Bridge Place must be a remarkably small location. Through the arch of the bridge and past a few houses there's another road sign naming the place but on the other side of the road, so at most, Bridge Place comprises the railway bridge and those few houses. The sign naming Bridge Place is of course in the blue and yellow style commonly found to name places in County Durham; there does seem to be an unusual density of such signs in the area around Bishop Auckland.

Eldon Lane, rather than being a road, is a small settlement near to the larger ones of Bishop Auckland and Shildon; the blue and yellow road sign is in a style introduced in County Durham some time ago. The view is from the sadly neglected cemetery surrounding the Church of St. Mark.

A Sure Start Children's Centre for local families use; across the road from St Mark's church.

The High Street seen from the churchyard.

There seems to be no valley involved in the small settlement of Gurney Valley; the word appears simply to be part of a place name and in no way descriptive. The settlement is little more than a single terrace of houses lying to the north of another small place, Coundon Grange. The blue and yellow road sign is in a style commonly found in County Durham; there's a particular proliferation of such signs in the area between Bishop Auckland and Shildon. Additional information added June 2017, received from an interested party: - There was development here of rows of houses originally called Gurney Villas, a reference to the Norfolk origins of the family of the landowner's wife. There was a number of terraces along the hillside but in the Category D village 'clean up' the settlement was renamed Gurney Vale then Valley, (for no known reason), and most of the rows were demolished.