Crook, CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL, December 2013
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Description
.....Crook is a small town at the eastern end of Weardale in the horse shoe valley formed by the Crook beck, and was little more than a hamlet around a village green until the early 19th century. The considerable expansion of coal mining increased the population of the area, including the surrounding villages, from 193 in 1801 to some 12000 by the early 1900s. The opening of a branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the development of various ancillary industries, including brick works and coke works, helped it to grow into an important local centre. Despite the pressures of industrialisation followed by a long period of economic stagnation, the essentially urban centre of Crook retains the very attractive ingredients of the village which preceded it; the large village green with a small parish church on it sloping down to the Crook beck, with a group of houses around the more ambitious Roman Catholic Church of the lower slopes of Dowfold Hill as a back-cloth. The hillside behind these buildings is almost clear of development and forms an essential part of the best view of the town centre..... -
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Further information
Link: https://www.durham.gov.uk/media/3553/Crook-Conservation-Area-Character-Appraisal/pdf/CrookConservationAreaCharacterAppraisal.pdf?m=1538042321923
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