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Clara Vale
Clara Vale in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Clara Vale is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Clara Vale is a village situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. Once an independent village in County Durham it became incorporated into the new metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in 1974 as part of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
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Background
History
Before the colliery and village were developed, a water-driven corn mill called Crawcrook Mill stood near the centre of the current village, with two small stone cottages and a mill dam apparently fed from Edington Well. This 'pot-pie' well is damaged but still stands near the road to the south of the village. Stannerford Road is the only vehicular route into Clara Vale, named after a former ford across the River Tyne which it led to, linking Crawcrook to the south and Heddon-on-the-Wall to the north. Maps from 1850 show a farmhouse called Stanner (or Stannar) House, which was later divided into two dwellings and demolished in the mid-1960s. Clara Vale was purpose built as a colliery…
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- Coordinates
- 54.9780, -1.7920
Sources
- wikidata: Q5126056 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Clara Vale (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Clara Vale?
- Clara Vale is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9780°, -1.7920°.