Welcome
Welcome to the Burnhope Village Colliery Banner
Website.
The purpose of this website is to record the mining
heritage of Burnhope and the creation of the newest colliery banner.
The banner project was initially funded by the Burnhope Rally
The site has sections covering the collieries of Burnhope, the Durham
Gala and the Lodge Banners. There are also pages giving any news of
events in the village as well as large photo-archive.
We would welcome any comments about the website and its content through the guest book, or if you want to submit a specific message you can use the contact page.
The links page will take you to a selected range of external related pages.
Please enjoy browsing through the site and do keep visiting us as we will be regularly updating the contents.
About Burnhope
Take the Durham road south from Maiden Law and in
a mile you reach Burnhope in blustery surroundings on top of a hill
800ft above sea level.
Burnhope's name means either broomy valley or stream valley. The
village is best known as the site of a 750ft high television mast
that can be seen from miles around.
Burnhope village is situated along the road running north east from
the mast towards Holmside and Edmondsley.
Housing developments have taken place at the western end of the
village throughout the 20th Century but the oldest parts of the
village, from the 1840's lie to the east.
Interactive Map
Use this map to see how the village has changed over time. The map shows the village as it stands now, there are various 'hot spots' on the map - hover over them and you will be shown what originally stood in that area in the past.
