Rookhope is a village in the civil parish of Stanhope, in County Durham, England. A former lead and fluorspar mining community, it first existed as a group...
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the west of Rookhope. The Lintzgarth smeltmill was built in 1737 and was used for smelting lead by all of the leadmines in the Rookhope valley. The poisonous...
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industry figure in many of his poems; the remote decaying mining village of Rookhope was for him a "sacred landscape", evoked in a late poem, "Amor Loci". Until...
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descending from Bolts Law engine to Rookhope. Locomotives were in use on the Parkhead side of the incline. From Rookhope the line turned south climbing the...
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source of inspiration. One place he visited, Rookhope, is also the setting of a border ballad, 'The Rookhope Ryde', which describes in some detail how in...
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Douglas" (Child 176) 4007. "The Earl of Westmoreland" (Child 177) 4008. "Rookhope Ryde" (Child 179) 4009. "King James and Brown" (Child 180) 4010. "Willie...
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Consett. Beyond Rowley, line split between original route to Stanhope and Rookhope via Waskerley and NER-built deviation to Wear Valley Junction via Tow Law...
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Pennine place-names are found in his work, including Cauldron Snout and Rookhope. An area of 770 square miles (2,000 km2) in the North Pennines was designated...
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The Rookhope Ryde, a County Durham border ballad, recounts an incursion by Tynedale reivers into Rookhope, a Weardale side valley....
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Hamilton, her three children and the other inhabitants. 179 Rookhope Ryde Thieves raid Rookhope while authorities are away during the Northern uprising....
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