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Wearside Dialect
The North East of England is characterised by strong local sense of identity, which is often defined by local
dialects. Just as the coalmining communities of Coastal Northumberland have developed pitmatic dialect,
Weardale had its specific idiom.
The number of people speaking and indeed understanding Weardale dialect decreased dramatically throughout the late
nineteenth and twentieth century as people moved to and from the dale. Realising the importance of preventing this
local language from dying out, writers such as William Morley Egglestone from Stanhope and W Herbert Smith in his
"Walks in Weardale" wrote stories using the dialect. alect by clicking
As an illustration, we have provided following pop-up pages with:
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