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Drystone walls and a barn in Baldersdale, Co Durham, not far from the former home of 'Daughter of the Dales', Hannah Hauxwell.
Older folk may recall Hannah originally coming to public attention after being featured in an ITV documentary, 'Too Long a Winter', which chronicled the almost unendurable conditions of farmers in the High Pennines in winter.
Living alone in a farmhouse that had originally been her family home, the remote property had neither running water or electricity.
On a late summer's day, the dale can appear very benign to the casual visitor, but as the TV documentary highlighted, the winters at these higher elevations of the North Pennines often arrive early and leave late.
The prominent hill in the distance is 'Goldsborough Rigg' and is crossed by a path, called the 'Bowes Loop', a section of the Pennine Way log distance footpath.
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Up in Weardale, around 3.5 km north of the village of Wolsingham, Co Durham, is Tunstall Reservoir.
Originally built as a water supply reservoir for the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Company, between 1873 and 1879 by the 19th century water engineer Thomas Hawksley.
These days the reservoir is soley used to maintain minimum regulatory flows on the River Wear, supporting of water abstractions further downstream, at Chester-le-Street.
There is car parking and a popular picnic spot available half way along the west side of the reservoir and if you're wanting to stretch your legs, you can do a complete circuit with an interesting section through the woods to the left in this view.
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Passed by these impressive big houses, overlooking the Heugh Breakwater on a visit to Hartlepool's Headland.
Only a pedestrian route separates the front of the properties from the sea wall and then an uninterrupted view out across Tees Bay to the North York Moors beyond distant Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
The red-bricked property is called 'Heortenesse', an ancient Old English placename that translates as 'stag peninsula' or 'promontory of the stags,' referring to this coastal area that is now Hartlepool and West Hartlepool (the 'Pools') in Co Durham.
Hartlepool Headland is also the southern end of the 'Durham Heritage Coast' which extends all the way down the North Sea coast from Sunderland.
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TABLE FOR TWO
And this one is right beside the window overlooking the Durham Heritage Coast!
A scenic spot on the south side of Seaham at Noses Point in NE England overlooking the coastal magnesian limestone landscape that was acquired some years back by the National Trust as part of Project Neptune.
The Heritage Coast runs all the way down to Hartlepool Headland and it you enjoy fresh air and stretching your legs, the clifftop paths provide ample opportunities, not to mention great views to the distant North York Moors.

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