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Cold Hesledon
Cold Hesledon is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the east of Murton.
Dalton Pumping Station
Within the village is a large Victorian, Gothic Revival former Water pumping station, designed by Thomas Hawksley for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company. The engine house contains a pair of 72" single-acting non-rotative Cornish beam engines by Davy Bros of Sheffield, dating from the 1870s when the complex was built. (Pumping engines of this period were more often of a double-acting rotative design (as seen at nearby Ryhope); the use of Cornish engines here seems to be due to the great depth of the well - some 450 feet.) The site suffered for many years from subsidence due to nearby mine workings; this in part led to the engines being decommissioned in the 1940s, and to the demolition in the 1960s of the striking campanile-like top section of the central tower/chimney. (The surviving chimney tower at Bestwood Notts., by the same architect, is of an almost identical design.)
The pumping station site was bought in 1995 with a view by its owners to transform it into a pub; however the building became Grade II* listed, which allegedly stopped its development. Other options are now being explored by the owners.
Other notable landmarks
Nearby is Dalton Tower, a ruined tower house.
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- "The village of Cold Hesledon lies in the east of County Durham, close to the north sea coast. Until the 1830s it was a rural, agricultural village, but in 1831 …
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Murton Colliery (1843-1991)
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