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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.
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).
Middridge is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is situated east of Shildon and north-west of Newton Aycliffe. The village is situated near a quarry that was mined by the people many generations ago. There is one public house in the village: the Bay Horse. In 2011 the parish had a population of 312.
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
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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.
Aycliffe railway station served the village of Aycliffe in County Durham, England. The railway station was served by trains on the East Coast Main Line between Darlington and Durham . History