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The River Wear, one of the three great water courses of North-east England, flows from its source in the wildest moorlands of the Pennines to meet the North Sea at Sunderland. The bleakness of its upper reaches, its geology and industrial history provided a lifetime’s material to the poet W H Auden. A visitor to this little-known, but very beautiful valley can share much of what inspired some of Auden’s greatest poetry.

The Weardale Railway

Weardale Railway was in use from the 1850s until 1992. Originally, it carried minerals and passengers between Bishop Auckland and Wearhead, though latterly, it served a now redundant cement works at Eastgate. Steam and diesel trains run throughout the year, between Wolsingham and Stanhope, operated by volunteers from the Weardale Railway Trust. Further extensions of the service, along the remaining track from Bishop Auckland to Eastgate are planned for the future. The 5-mile journey is leisurely and runs from rural, wooded country to where the wilder scenery of the Pennine moors begins to assert itself.

The Harehope Quarry Project

An eco-friendly educational project has been set up half-a-mile from Frosterley, between Wolsingham and Stanhope. It contains a trail designed to give an insight into geological time scales, and a hide that allows one to watch the birds that visit the quarry pond. A track around the quarry rim crosses, at its western end, a bridge over Bollihope Burn, a small river that runs into a miniature limestone gorge. In the stream bed, boulders of Frosterley marble are well exposed. This is, in fact, a highly decorative, fossil-bearing limestone, used in many churches in the county, including Durham Cathedral.

Stanhope

The Dales Centre in Stanhope comprises a Tourist Information Centre, café and shops that sell samples of mineral ores, paintings and craft works. Adjacent to this is St Thomas’s Church, at the graveyard wall of which stands a fossil tree. This was brought here from a sandstone quarry at Edmundbyers, ten miles to the north, and dates back to the carboniferous era of 320 million years ago.