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Grindon
Also known as: Grindon, Swydd Durham
Grindon in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Grindon is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Grindon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Grindon and Thorpe Thewles, in the Stockton-on-Tees district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. The civil parish population at the census 2001 was 2,603 reducing to 2,484 at the 2011 Census. In the 2021 census, the population of Grindon and Thorpe Thewles parish, now no longer including Wynyard, was 940. It is situated between Sedgefield and Stockton-on-Tees, near to Thorpe Thewles and Thorpe Larches. The place name of "Grindon" is derived from the word 'dun', which meant hill. Grindon is situated in the Upland Fells, formed of Carboniferous millstone grit. "The alternating strata of harder and softer rocks give a stepped profile to many dale sides and distinctive flat-topped summits to the higher fells."
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Background
History
In 1831 the parish of Grindon incorporated the townships of Grindon and Whitton. Whitton later moved to the parish of Stillington, two miles west of Grindon. In 1908 the parish boundaries of Grindon grew to include the township of Embleton from the neighbouring parish of Sedgefield. The parish was home to 4,275 acres of land, of which, 1,037 acres are home to agriculture, 1,927 under grass, while there are 845 acres of woods and plantations. The main agricultural outputs are wheat, oats and barley, all of which thrive due to the mix of magnesian, limestone and siltstone, unique to the North East region of England. Remains of the old church of St. Thomas of Canterbury are situated to the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6160, -1.3830
- District
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Parish
- Grindon and Thorpe Thewles
- Postcode
- TS21 3JF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Stockton North
- Official site
- www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q5609461 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Grindon, County Durham (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Grindon?
- Grindon is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6160°, -1.3830°.