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Old Rookhope: Introduction
Weardale is a picturesque North Pennine dale, with its two-row villages spread closely along the valley bottom.
If you visit Weardale today it would be difficult to imagine this sleepy farming dale as an industrial centre,
when the mining of lead, iron and fluorspar, smelt works, railways dominated the landscape and its people.
The Rookhope Burn was home to many of these sites dotted along its route. The villages which grew up around the
industrial works were thriving and energetic communities with churches, shops, pubs, libraries, cricket and football
fields.
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