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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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South of Seaton Carew in NE Egland, where the huge sandy beaches give way to a rocky area along the north side of the estuary to the River Tees.
This is the North Gare, the opposite side of the Tees as this point known as the South Gare.
Always wondered what 'gare' actually meant and only today did I discover it refers to a triangular piece of land or a projecting spit of land jutting out into water.
Here at Teesmouth, the North Gare and South Gare describe the triangular or tongue-like projections of land and sand dunes on either side of the River Tees estuary mouth, so, there you go!
The North Gare made international news a few years ago as being the place where 'canoe man' John Darwin, faked his own death during a staged canoeing accident, ostensibly to collect life insurance money and escape heavy debts.
His 'disappearance' sparked a huge search and rescue operation from this beach.
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