Thringarth
Thringarth is a hamlet in Lunedale, in the Pennines of England. It is traditionally located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirkcarrion and Laithkirk Church.
Kirkcarrion
Archaeological site
Photo: Etype.jaguar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirkcarrion is a copse of pine trees, surrounded by a stone wall, on a hilltop near Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England. The trees, which were planted in Victorian times, cover a tumulus which is reputed to be the burial place of a Bronze Age chieftain, Prince Caryn, who ruled before the days of the Romans.
Laithkirk Church
Church
Photo: Hodgsonge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Laithkirk Church is situated 1½ miles northeast of Thringarth.
Park End Wood
Forest
Park End Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Teesdale district of west County Durham, England. The site occupies a low hill of Whin Sill on the southern edge of the River Tees floodplain just over 2 km upstream from the village of Middleton-in-Teesdale. Park End Wood is situated 2 miles north of Thringarth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harter Fell and Grassholme.
Harter Fell
Locality
Harter Fell is an area of upland heath in west County Durham, England. It lies on the watershed between the River Tees to the north-east and the River Lune to the south and reaches a maximum height of 481 metres above sea level about 1-kilometre north of the hamlet of Thringarth.
Grassholme
Locality
Grassholme is a village in County Durham, England. For centuries it lay within the historic county boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, but, along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
Bowbank
Hamlet
Bowbank is a hamlet in Lunedale, a side valley of Teesdale in County Durham, England. It is within Lunedale civil parish and is situated on the B6276 road, 1 mile south of Middleton-in-Teesdale and 8 miles north west of the town of Barnard Castle.
Thringarth
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in County Durham, United Kingdom
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Lunedale, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.60179° or 54° 36′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.1085° or 2° 6′ 31″ westElevation
1,106 feet (337 metres)Open location code
9C6VJV2R+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 426760603OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Thringarth” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Thringarth”
- French: “Thringarth”
- Irish: “Thringarth”
- Polish: “Thringarth”
- Welsh: “Thringarth”
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