Durham : A county built on coal.
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Through the archway
Looking through the archway of Elvet Bridge in Durham towards the "ladies" of Durham
Durham, 3 December 2022. The first fortress here was around 1072 but little remains from before 1340. Construction of the cathedral started in 1093 and most was completed within forty years, although there have been later additions and alterations. The castle was really a bishop's palace with some fortification, but despite this it was the only northern castle never to fall to the Scots; it is now part of Durham University.
This view is of the weir on the River Wear below the cathedral on a late autumn day.
Durham Cathedral Tonight
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Clear sky above Durham this afternoon. Headed down to the riverside to catch the sun in the best position for the autumn colours. Took the opportunity to get down to Durham ahead of the lockdown tomorrow.
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Durham 3 December 2022.
This impressive viaduct is part of the East Coast Main Line from London to Edinburgh via Newcastle, but it only became part of that route in 1872, having been completed in 1856 for what was not much more than a branch line from Sunderland to Bishop Auckland, all but two miles of which was abandoned by 1968.
Durham, 3 December 2022. The first fortress here was around 1072 but little remains from before 1340. Construction of the cathedral started in 1093 and most was completed within forty years, although there have been later additions and alterations. The castle was really a bishop's palace with some fortification, but despite this it was the only northern castle never to fall to the Scots; it is now part of Durham University.
I know that there has been a long time since taking this image, and so much has happened, but this was the first time I was in Durham City since the work on the cathedral tower was finished. After years of waiting to see that skyline again as it was meant to be viewed was an incredible feeling, and so I had to get this view over the rooftops towards the cities astonishing centerpiece.
Late afternoon light at Durham Cathedral. I had never been to Durham before and was really taken with it. Beautiful city that I can only describe as a cross between Chester and Cambridge built on seven hills with The River Wear meandering through and creating a natural peninsula.
The Cathedral was founded over the final resting place of St. Cuthbert.
Wiki on St.Cuthbert...
In his lifetime, Cuthbert (635-687) was an influential churchman who was Prior of Melrose and then of Lindisfarne. He was a venerated religious figure, and a successful preacher who was responsible for the spread of Christianity in the North of England. After his death, his grave in Lindisfarne, and the places to which his incorrupt body was subsequently moved – Chester Le-Street and Ripon – became the greatest focus of pilgrimage in early medieval England until the death of Thomas Becket in 1170. Cuthbert’s body has been in Durham since 995, and the grave is still a shrine to which pilgrims travel.