Sleightholme
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Sleightholme | |
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Sleightholme Moor Road | |
Location within County Durham | |
OS grid reference | NY955102 |
Civil parish | |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Durham |
Fire | County Durham and Darlington |
Ambulance | North East |
Sleightholme /ˈsliːtəm/[1] is a secluded hamlet on a dead end road in County Durham, England. It lies beside Sleightholme Beck, a tributary of the River Greta. The nearest town is Bowes, 4 miles away.
The name, first recorded in 1254, is believed to come from the Old Norse sletta holmr, meaning "flat ground near water".[1] The place was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire,[2] and was transferred to County Durham in 1974.
The Pennine Way passes through Sleightholme. Below the hamlet Sleightholme Beck passes through a narrow valley, known as The Troughs, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
References
- ^ a b Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Sleightholme", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press
- ^ National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868
External links
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