Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine

#1837 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Derwentside district of north County Durham and the Tynedale district of south Northumberland, England. It consists of two separate areas of woodland, one in the gorge of the River Derwent and the other in the ravine of its tributary, the Horsleyhope Burn, south-east of the village of Muggleswick. ()

Established: 1976 (48 years ago)Coordinates: 54°49'60"N, 1°55'3"W

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Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pow Hill Bog, Hisehope Reservoir, Hownsgill Viaduct, Blanchland Abbey.

3.4 miNW
Park
Pow Hill Bog
87 min walk • Pow Hill Bog is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of County Durham, England. It lies alongside Derwent Reservoir, approximately 2 km north-west of the village of Edmundbyers and adjacent to the Edmundbyers Common portion of the Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor SSSI.
2.4 miSW
Lake
Hisehope Reservoir, North Pennines
63 min walk • Hisehope Reservoir is the smallest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Smiddy Shaw Reservoirs. The reservoir was completed 1906, and is owned and operated by Northumbrian Water.
2.6 miE
Bridge
Hownsgill Viaduct
67 min walk • The Hownsgill Viaduct is a former railway bridge located west of Consett in County Durham, England. It is currently used as a footpath and cycleway.
5.6 miW
Monastery, Sacred and religious sites, Historical place
Blanchland Abbey
143 min walk • Blanchland Abbey at Blanchland, in the English county of Northumberland, was founded as a premonstratensian priory in 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II, and was a daughter house of Croxton Abbey in Leicestershire. It became an abbey in the late 13th century.
4.1 miN
Church
St Andrew's Church
104 min walk • St Andrew's Church, Shotley, is a redundant Anglican church standing in an isolated position at a height of 960 feet on Greymare Hill in Northumberland, England.
3.6 miE
54°51'10"N • 1°49'60"W
The Derwent Centre, Consett
92 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
4.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Tunstall Reservoir
121 min walk • Tunstall Reservoir was a water supply storage reservoir completed in 1879, and now used solely to maintain minimum regulatory flows on the River Wear in northeast England.
1.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Smiddy Shaw Reservoir
44 min walk • Smiddy Shaw Reservoir is one of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Hisehope Reservoirs. The reservoir, which was completed by 1872, is owned and operated by Northumbrian Water.
5.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Vindomora
134 min walk • Vindomora was an auxiliary fort on Dere Street, in the province of Lower Britain. Its ruins, now known as Ebchester Roman Fort, are situated at Ebchester in the English county of Durham, to the north of Consett and 12 miles west-south-west from Newcastle upon Tyne.
5.4 miSE
Farm
Hall Hill Farm, Durham
137 min walk • Hall Hill Farm is a tourist attraction located in County Durham, near Tow Law, England.
6.4 miSW
Archaeological site
Crawley Edge Cairns, Stanhope
163 min walk • The Crawley Edge Cairns are a series of forty-two Bronze Age round barrows, cairns and clearance cairns located in a field in Crawleyside, near Stanhope, County Durham, England.