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Durham County

Author: Jean Bradley Anderson

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 0822349833

This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.

County Durham

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780300095999

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The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.

Ghostly County Durham

Author: Rob Kirkup

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2010-02-23

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 075095244X

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From reports of haunted castles, hotels, public houses, and even a prisoner of war camp, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly County Durham investigates over twenty of the most haunted locations in the area today. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this selection includes a club-footed monk at Finchdale Priory, the Singing Lady Cauldron Snout, as well as a collection of spectres that call Durham Castle home — including a shadowy figure which haunts the Black Staircase. Illustrated with sixty photographs, together with access details for each location, this book is sure to appeal all those interested in finding out more about the area's haunted heritage.