Lobley Hill

Lobley Hill has been shown on maps over a period of time. The Ordnance Survey taken in 1857 for the map published in 1862 shows Lobley Hill marked at a junction just to the east of the signal box on the Tanfield Branch of the North Eastern Railway against a small group of buildings. These appear to be the buildings occupied according to the 1939 Register, and still standing in 1950s before clearance to make way for the branch library. Also high on the actual hill to the south is Green's Farm on the lane going to Streetgate. Further down the hill to the east at a crossroads that may be familiar as the Coach Road there are a group of buildings on the south east corner which may have been…