Buck Riggs

Buck Riggs is a locality in Lunedale, County Durham, England. Buck Riggs is situated nearby to the locality Crossthwaite, as well as near Harter Fell.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Park End Wood and Kirkcarrion.

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.

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.

Low Force

Waterfall

Photo: Scareyb, CC BY 3.0.

Low Force is an 18-foot high set of falls on the River Tees, England, UK. Further upstream is the High Force waterfall. Low Force is also the site of the Wynch Bridge, completed in 1830. Low Force is situated 2½ miles northwest of Buck Riggs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harter Fell and Thringarth.

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.

Thringarth

Hamlet

Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Dent Bank

Hamlet

Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dent Bank is a hamlet in the civil parish of Middleton in Teesdale, in County Durham, England. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale between Middleton-in-Teesdale and Newbiggin.

Buck Riggs

Type: Locality
Location: Lunedale, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.6154° or 54° 36′ 55″ north

Longitude

-2.12734° or 2° 7′ 38″ west

Open location code

9C6VJV8F+53

OpenStreetMap ID

node 426738928

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

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