Muggleswick, North Pennines

#12 among attractions in North Pennines

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Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham and Northumberland, England. It consists of two separate areas, the larger—encompassing the upland areas of Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons—in the Derwentside and Wear Valley districts of north Durham, the smaller—Blanchland Moor—in the Tynedale district of south-west Northumberland. ()

Coordinates: 54°48'60"N, 2°0'0"W

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Muggleswick – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pow Hill Bog, Hisehope Reservoir, Blanchland Abbey, Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine.

3.1 miN
Park
Pow Hill Bog
79 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.
1.3 miE
Lake
Hisehope Reservoir, North Pennines
34 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.
3.2 miNW
Monastery, Sacred and religious sites, Historical place
Blanchland Abbey
81 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.
3.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
89 min walk • 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.
5.9 miNE
Church
St Andrew's Church
150 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.
5.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Tunstall Reservoir
136 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.
2.7 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Smiddy Shaw Reservoir
68 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.
4.4 miS
Archaeological site
Crawley Edge Cairns, Stanhope
112 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.
5.6 miN
Church
Minsteracres
144 min walk • Minsteracres is an 18th-century mansion house, now a Christian retreat centre, in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The house was built in 1758 by George Silvertop. Originally erected with two storeys, a third storey was added in 1811 and a new North wing was built in 1865.
2.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Waskerley Reservoir
55 min walk • Waskerley Reservoir is the largest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Smiddy Shaw and Hisehope Reservoirs.
3.6 miS
Archaeological site
Heathery Burn Cave
93 min walk • Heathery Burn Cave is a cave near Stanhope, County Durham, England, in which a large collection of Late Bronze Age weapons and tools was discovered and excavated between 1859 and 1872.