Geograph - photograph every grid square

Taken at the south west corner of the lake, looking north east towards the Hummersknott area of Darlington.

Weir on the River Tees with riverbank and field beyond.

The long distance footpath approaching the village from the east.

This is the suction gas producer plant that was used with a 220 horsepower Richard Hornsby gas engine driving pumps. The producer is the vertical unit on the left and the rest is all associated with gas cleaning. This plant stopped running... (more)

The 1852 clear water tank. Filtered water was stored here before being pumped to a service reservoir. The pumping station was built on the north bank of the River Tees in 1849 to provide clean drinking water to Darlington and other parts of... (more)

Just north of a sharp river bend with the opposite bank in North Yorkshire

This is the site's preserved Woolf compound beam pumping engine that was installed in 1904. This was the third beam engine on the site, the earlier two dating from 1849 and 1853. This part of the site was designed by T & C Hawksley... (more)

Carved stone post by the A67, in parish of LOW CONISCLIFFE AND MERRYBENT (DARLINGTON District), Conniscliffe Road, Broken Brae carpark, near pumping station, on grass verge, on South side of road, just West of car park entrance. BC/D stone,... (more)

Wellbank Cottage lies off Gate Lane. The Victorian postbox now serves as a private letterbox for the cottage. Beside it stands a very fine example of a bicycle used as a planter.