Place:Rookhope, Durham, England

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NameRookhope
TypeVillage
Located inDurham, England


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Rookhope is a village in County Durham, in England. A former lead and fluorspar mining community, it first existed as a group of cattle farms in the 13th Century. It is situated in the Pennines to the north of Weardale. W. H. Auden once called Rookhope "the most wonderfully desolate of all the dales".

In the 2001 census Rookhope had a population of 267.

The village had two public houses, the Rookhope Inn and the Swallow's Rest on the fell surrounding Rookhope but now closed (May 2022), both popular with cyclists on the coast to coast cycling route which runs from Sunderland on the east coast to Whitehaven or Workington on the West Cumbrian coast of northern England.

Travelling by road, Rookhope is to the west of Durham, to the west of Newcastle upon Tyne, to the north west of Middlesbrough and to the east of Carlisle.

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