WHORLTON LIDO

  • Description

    1986: "Just below the village of Whorlton, the R. Tees has bared the underlying limestone rock. The river bank rises vertically on the north side, but only gradually on the south. The result is the creation of a favoured picnic and playing site just beside the river. The area is mown regularly and families from Darlington, Bishop Auckland and Barnard Castle come here for an afternoon in the summer sun. The attraction is the quiet rural setting with safe bathing in the shallow pools created by the rocky river bed and space to picnic or play on the grass with the river and wooded banks as a background. The owners have recently added a miniature, passenger carrying railway. The iron suspension bridge nearby has a weight limit of 3 tons and was opened in 1831... "
  • Owner

    BBC - Domesday Reloaded
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
  • License

    What does this mean? Unknown license check permission to reuse
  • Further information

    Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20161027190118/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-408000-513000/page/4
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 8 years, 3 months ago
    Viewed: 692 times
    Picture Taken: Unknown
  • Co-Curate tags

Comments

Add a comment or share a memory.

Login to add a comment. Sign-up if you don't already have an account.

ABOUT US

Co-Curate is a project which brings together online collections, museums, universities, schools and community groups to make and re-make stories and images from North East England and Cumbria. Co-Curate is a trans-disciplinary project that will open up 'official' museum and 'un-officia'l co-created community-based collections and archives through innovative collaborative approaches using social media and open archives/data.

LATEST SHARED RESOURCES