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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).
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 ]
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.
Photography, especially with modern technology, enables a broader range of people to document their lives and environments, creating a more inclusive and diverse historical record." However ...
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 aesthetic of vintage photographs is undeniably charming. Certain imperfections and the warm, grainy, soft look evoke nostalgia and take us back in time when moments were captured on film. They ...
It is a disused quarry, situated alongside the railway line between Newton Aycliffe and Shildon, 1 km south of the village of Middridge. The quarry was excavated in Magnesian Limestone , the lowest level of which is an exceptionally fossiliferous marl slate which has yielded the richest and most varied Permian flora in the Britain and is the ...
Sedgefield has a long mining history (extracting coal, fluorspar and iron ore) and once had a very strong affiliation to the Labour Party, with nearly monolithic support in parts of the constituency. [ citation needed ] The area contains a mixture of former coal country in the area around Trimdon and more industrial areas around the new town of ...