Escomb, the Glossary
Escomb is a village and former civil parish on the River Wear about west of Bishop Auckland, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.[1]
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Albert Richardson (architect)
Sir Albert Edward Richardson (19 May 1880 in London – 3 February 1964) was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century.
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Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Angles (tribe)
The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.
Anglo-Saxon architecture
Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066.
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Bishop Auckland
Bishop Auckland is a market town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, England.
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Bishop Auckland (UK Parliament constituency)
Bishop Auckland is a constituency in County Durham that is represented in the House of Commons since 2024 by Sam Rushworth of the Labour Party.
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Bishop Auckland railway station
Bishop Auckland is a railway station that serves the market town of Bishop Auckland in County Durham, North East England, north-west of Darlington.
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.
Clergy house
A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion.
Combe
A combe (also spelled coombe or coomb and, in place names, comb) can refer either to a steep, narrow valley, or to a small valley or large hollow on the side of a hill; in any case, it is often understood simply to mean a small valley through which a watercourse does not run.
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County Durham
County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.
County Durham (district)
County Durham is a local government district in the ceremonial county of County Durham, England.
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Crook and Willington Urban District
Crook and Willington was an urban district in County Durham, England from 1937 to 1974.
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Crook, County Durham
Crook is a market town in the Durham County Council unitary authority and ceremonial county of County Durham, England.
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Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Durham, England.
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Escomb Church
Escomb Church is the Church of England parish church of Escomb, County Durham, a village about west of Bishop Auckland.
Gaunless Bridge
Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
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Neighbourhood Statistics Service
The Neighbourhood Statistics Service (NeSS) was established in 2001 by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) - then part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), now Communities and Local Government (CLG) - to provide good quality small area data to support the Government's Neighbourhood Renewal agenda.
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North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)
The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company.
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Northman of Escomb
Northman (Norþman; fl. 994) was a late 10th-century English earl, with a territorial base in Northumbria north of the River Tees.
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Northumbria
Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
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River Wear
The River Wear in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland.
Samuel Lewis (publisher)
Samuel Lewis (c. 1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Shildon railway station
Shildon is a railway station serving the town of Shildon in County Durham, England on the Tees Valley Line, between and via.
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.
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Vicar
A vicar (Latin: vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand").
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Vinovia
Vinovia or Vinovium was a Roman fort and settlement situated just over to the north of the town of Bishop Auckland on the banks of the River Wear in County Durham, England.
Weardale Railway
The Weardale Railway is an independently owned British single-track branch line heritage railway between, Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham, Frosterley and Stanhope.
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West Auckland, County Durham
West Auckland is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, to the west of Bishop Auckland on the A688 road. Escomb and west Auckland, County Durham are villages in County Durham.
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1851 United Kingdom census
The United Kingdom Census of 1851 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 30 March 1851, and was the second of the UK censuses to include details of household members.
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