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Croft-on-Tees, said the editorial of the D&S Times 150 years ago, is a “pretty village of neat trim-built cottages” set amid beautiful…

CROFT-ON-TEES is an unusual village in that it has not one but two grand halls, and new research shows that’s because for centuries it was two…

CROFT-ON-TEES is an unusual village in that it has not one but two grand halls, and new research shows that’s because for centuries it was two…

IN 1873, the Darlington & Stockton Times, the Echo’s sister weekly paper, ran a series of articles by one of its most colourful pensmiths as…

IN times of great spate, the people of Croft-on-Tees have been known to require a rescue boat to escape from their flooded homes, but why in the…

THE oldest walnut tree in the North-East has been discovered growing quietly in a garden, as it has done for the last 300 years and more. It is behind the hall of a copper mine king in Middleton Tyas, near Scotch Corner, and with a girth of 550cms, it overshadows the previously known “champion” trees of the area by more than a metre. The 300 year old walnut tree at West Hall, Middleton Tyas There are two main types of walnut tree in this country: the English walnut, which originates f...

THE oldest walnut tree in the North-East has been discovered growing quietly in a garden, as it has done for the last 300 years and more. It is behind the hall of a copper mine king in Middleton Tyas, near Scotch Corner, and with a girth of 550cms, it overshadows the previously known “champion” trees of the area by more than a metre. The 300 year old walnut tree at West Hall, Middleton Tyas There are two main types of walnut tree in this country: the English walnut, which originates f...