Stanhope (GB)

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N.B. This page should be used for Postmarks of the Parish of Stanhope. Although the Post Offices themselves are Branch Offices of County Durham. Only known Post Offices are listed, smaller villages would have been served by a nearby village office.

Stanhope is a village and civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It lies on the River Wear between Eastgate and Frosterley, in the north-east of Weardale. The main A689 road over the Pennines is crossed by the B6278 between Barnard Castle and Shotley Bridge. Stanhope is the current terminus of the Weardale Railway, a heritage line operating mainly at weekends from Bishop Auckland, with stations at Frosterley, Wolsingham and Witton-le-Wear. Stanhope Station stood in for the fictional Partlington Station in an episode of the criminal drama series Vera.

Stanhope Parish is the largest Parish in the UK. It includes the settlements of (Bold known Post Offices) Cornriggs, Cowshill, Daddry Shield, Eastgate, Frosterley, Ireshopeburn, Lanehead, St John's Chapel, Wearhead and Westgate, all on the A689 road, and also Bollihope, Bridge End, Brotherlee, Copthill, Crawleyside, East Blackdene, Hill End, Lintzgarth, New House, Rookhope and West Blackdene. Other places it includes are Killhope, Shittlehope, Unthank and White Kirkley.

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Stanhope

The single ring cancel of Stanhope is found from 1900-1910 with an extended top serif to the E.

1905 Code C Long top serif to E in name.

1906 Code A Long top serif to E in name.

1907 Code D Long top serif to E in name.

Cornriggs

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Cowshill

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Daddry Shield

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Eastgate

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Frosterley

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Ireshopeburn

1906

Ireshopeburn (the r is silent and it is pronounced Eye-sup-burn) is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated on the south side of Weardale, between St John's Chapel and Wearhead, and on the other side of the Wear from West Blackdene and New House.

Burnhope Reservoir lies above the village.

Ireshopeburn is the site of the High House Chapel, the oldest purpose-built Methodist Chapel in the world to have held continuous weekly services since its foundation in 1760. John Wesley himself preached at High House on many occasions.

Ireshopeburn is the site of the Weardale Museum.

Rookhope

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St John' Chapel

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Wearhead

1905 Single circle Code A

Wearhead is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated at the top of Weardale between Cowshill and Ireshopeburn.

It is named after the nearby source of the River Wear which runs eastwards for approx 40 miles to Sunderland.

The first settlement at Wearhead may have been a farmstead, possibly a summer base for the Bishop's cattle which would have been taken to lower ground in winter.

East of the village lies a steep hillside, which has evidence of shallow shafts and hushes which were the early methods used to extract lead and iron. In County Durham there were rich deposits of lead lying within a circle of about 10 miles' radius drawn around Wearhead, hence the lead-mining industry of Weardale and Teesdale.

Wearhead was the terminus of the Weardale Extension Railway which opened on 21 October 1895. The line was mainly used for freight carrying limestone, iron ore, lead ore and fluorspar to the industrial areas of North East England.

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939 and possibly one for some of 1934. It closed to passenger traffic on 29 June 1953 and to goods on 2 January 1961.

Westgate

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