Dry Rigg
Dry Rigg is a peak in Hunstanworth, County Durham, England and has an elevation of 1,854 feet. Dry Rigg is situated nearby to the locality Black Hags, as well as near Redburn Edge.Places of Interest
Highlights include Grove Rake Mine Lodging Shop and Church of St John the Evangelist.
Grove Rake Mine Lodging Shop
Industrial building
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grove Rake Mine Lodging Shop is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lintzgarth and Rookhope.
Lintzgarth
Hamlet
Lintzgarth is a village in the civil parish of Stanhope, in County Durham, England. It is situated to the west of Rookhope. The Lintzgarth smeltmill was built in 1737 and was used for smelting lead by all of the leadmines in the Rookhope valley.
Rookhope
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rookhope is a village in the civil parish of Stanhope, in County Durham, England. A former lead and fluorspar mining community, it first existed as a group of cattle farms in the 13th century.
Ramshaw
Hamlet
Ramshaw is a small village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the south of Hunstanworth, a few miles west of Consett. Lead mining was an important industry from the 1650s.
Dry Rigg
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,854 feet
- Also known as: “Redburn Common”
- Category: landform
- Location: Hunstanworth, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.79904° or 54° 47′ 57″ northLongitude
-2.13633° or 2° 8′ 11″ westElevation
1,854 feet (565 metres)Open location code
9C6VQVX7+JFOpenStreetMap ID
node 33796461OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12620931
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