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A map of Aycliffe and its surrounding area c. 1611, extracted from a map of County Durham by John Speed.The name "Aycliffe" is rendered as "Acle". In the above, "Acle" is the original village of Aycliffe, and "Scol Acle" is School Aycliffe ("School" in the village's name being derived from "Scula", a Viking chieftain that was granted lands in the area).
St Andrews Church in Aycliffe Village dates back to Saxon times and Church Synods were held there in AD 782 and AD 789. The church is over 1200 years old and was dedicated originally to Saint Acca, chaplain to Saint Wilfred. Some time after his death, a church dedicated to Saint Acca was built here in AD 740, before the dedication was ...
Chester-le-Street. Carlbury, Carlton, Carrville, Cassop, Castle Eden, Castleside, Catchgate, Causey, Chester Moor, Chester-le-Street, Chilton, Chilton Lane, Cleatlam ...
It is situated between Darlington and Shildon, near Newton Aycliffe. One of its most significant features is St Michael's Church, which sits in the middle of a large village green. The church is Norman, except for the 13th-century south aisle and the 19th-century north aisle.
Heighington is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington.The station, situated 5 miles 62 chains (9.3 km) north-west of Darlington, serves the villages of Aycliffe and Heighington in County Durham, England.
Aycliffe is part of the name of 5 places in County Durham, England: Newton Aycliffe, the oldest new town in the north of England Great Aycliffe, a civil parish; Aycliffe Village, a village south of Newton Aycliffe Aycliffe railway station; School Aycliffe, a village west of Newton Aycliffe and east of Heighington
The name "Middridge" is derived from its location at that time on the "middle ridge" between Eldon and School Aycliffe (near the current Aycliffe golf course). Anglo-Saxon Middridge lasted for five hundred years before being destroyed by the Normans during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North. Those who survived this massacre (and the ...
The site consists of a length of ditch alongside the East Coast Main Line railway, 3 km east of the town of Newton Aycliffe. The area where the site is located was once a large wetland known as Bradbury, Mordon, and Preston Carrs, and the only remaining portion of it is the ditch next to the railroad.