English Heritage sites near Bishop Middleham Parish
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
7 miles from Bishop Middleham Parish
A charming Gothic Revival 'eyecatcher' built in 1760 in the park of the Bishops of Durham. It provided deer with shelter and food, and had grounds for picnics and rooms for enjoying the view.
FINCHALE PRIORY
10 miles from Bishop Middleham Parish
The very extensive remains of a 13th-century priory, founded on the site of a retired pirate's hermitage. Part of it later served as a holiday retreat for the monks of Durham Cathedral.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
12 miles from Bishop Middleham Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
STANWICK IRON AGE FORTIFICATIONS
15 miles from Bishop Middleham Parish
An excavated section, part cut into rock, of the ramparts of the huge Iron Age trading and power-centre of the Brigantes, the most important tribe in pre- Roman northern Britain.
HYLTON CASTLE
17 miles from Bishop Middleham Parish
The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.
EGGLESTONE ABBEY
19 miles from Bishop Middleham Parish
The charming ruins of a small monastery of Premonstratensian 'white canons', picturesquely set above a bend in the River Tees near Barnard Castle.
Churches in Bishop Middleham Parish
St Michael
Church Street, Bishop Middleham
Bishop Middleham
01740 620274
http://www.upperskerne.org.uk
St Michael’s Church in Bishop Middleham is one of five churches within the Parish of the Upper Skerne.
To book baptisms please contact the Parish office. Tel 01740 620274 or 07958 360867 email [email protected]
To book weddings please contact Mr Bill Armstrong. Tel 0191 3773847 or 07913 813138, email [email protected]
Pubs in Bishop Middleham Parish
Cross Keys
9 High Street, Bishop Middleham, DL17 9AR
(01740) 651231
crosskeysbm.com