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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).
Today's Aycliffe Village is a mixture of cottages, old houses and new builds. On the whole, its architecture is varied with some houses dating back several hundred years to a small amount of relatively new-build properties. Although, unfortunately the village is cut by a main A class road, the A167.
Preston-le-Skerne was formerly a township in the parish of Aycliffe. [2] In 1866, Preston le Skerne became a separate civil parish. [3] On 1 April 1983 the parish was abolished and merged with Mordon. [4] In 1971, the parish had a population of 81. [5]
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
School Aycliffe was formerly a township in the parish of Heighington, [1] from 1866 School Aycliffe was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1946 the parish was abolished and merged with Heighington. [2] In 1931 the parish had a population of 16. [3]
ROF Aycliffe, was a Royal Ordnance Factory built on an 867-acre (3.51 km 2) site off Heighington Lane, Aycliffe, County Durham, England during the early 1940s. "Aycliffe Angels" [ edit ]
It was named after Sedgefield, but its largest town was Newton Aycliffe. Other places included Shildon, Ferryhill and Spennymoor. The borough was formed (as Sedgefield District), in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of Sedgefield Rural District, Spennymoor and Shildon urban districts and part of Darlington Rural District.
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 ...