IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Main Street, SHILDON, DL4 1AF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Main Street, DL4 1AF 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 (38 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Harker Street drops into Hackworth Park
Until the mid 20th century this path was a railway track which carried coal etc from the mines of south Durham to the coast.
Image: © Geoff Royle
Taken: 13 Jun 2007
0.07 miles
2
Shildon Football Club ground in Dean Street
Image: © Peter Robinson
Taken: 24 Oct 2010
0.09 miles
3
Shildon West Millennium Gateway
The arch on Main Street.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 21 Jun 2011
0.10 miles
4
Shildon 2nd railway station (site), County Durham
Known as "Daniel Adamson's coach house", this is claimed to be the world's first purpose built passenger railway terminus. The arches for the passenger shed can still be clearly made out, although now infilled. A single railway track ran into the building from the far side.
It was a small scale and short lived service dating to c.1832-3. Daniel Adamson ran a private horse-drawn coach along the Surtees railway (now a footpath), which ran onto the Stockton and Darlington Railway near the current Shildon station. However, the S&DR soon took over the running of all services using conventional steam-hauled trains, and this passenger service was abandoned.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 12 Nov 2021
0.10 miles
5
The Royal George Tavern, Shildon
On Main Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 6 Dec 2015
0.10 miles
6
Daniel Adamson Coach House
Standing at the junction of Byerley Road and Main Street this boarded up building is believed to be Shildon's first purpose built railway passenger terminus. Originally it had front and back arches which have since been blocked up. Daniel Adamson was the occupant of the Grey Horse Inn (just off camera to the left) and he operated a horse drawn railway coach on the new railway from New Shildon to Stockton. When the Surtees Railway was built in 1832 it is believed he moved the terminus to this building. In 1833 the service was brought out by the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Later the building was used as a farmhouse.
Image: © Mick Garratt
Taken: 15 Dec 2008
0.11 miles
7
Old Railway Station
The historic Daniel Adamson's Coach House with its access arches now in-filled.
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 16 Apr 2023
0.11 miles
8
Byerley Road meets Main Street
Traffic is controlled at this T-junction with a 'fried-egg' roundabout.
The public house opposite is named after local hero Timothy Hackworth.
He was a famous locomotive designer/engineer who lived and worked in the town from 1825 to 1850.
The historic Grey Horse pub on the left has its own Geograph with comments, here : http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1109270
Image: © Geoff Royle
Taken: 13 Jun 2007
0.11 miles
9
West Millennium Gateway Shildon
Over Main Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 6 Dec 2015
0.12 miles
