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unusual facts about Bishop Auckland


Auckland Park Hospital

Auckland Park Hospital in Bishop Auckland provides psychiatric care to the elderly.


Alf Bond

He officiated at the 1954 FA Amateur Cup Final at Wembley between Bishop Auckland and Crook Town and has also refereed four international matches.

Bishop Auckland F.C.

Football in Bishop Auckland can be traced back to 1882 when theological students from Cambridge and Oxford Universities studying at Auckland Castle, home to the Bishop of Durham in Bishop Auckland, formed a team known as Bishop Auckland Church Institute.

Charlie Wayman

Wayman, who was born in Chilton, Bishop Auckland, was a prolific centre-forward in the first decade after the Second World War.

Darlington Memorial Hospital

Darlington Memorial Hospital provides acute hospital services for people living in southwest Durham which includes the towns of Darlington, Newton Aycliffe, Bishop Auckland, Shildon and Barnard Castle.

Francisco de Zurbarán

Thirteen of his paintings, depicting the patriarch Jacob and 12 of his sons, are held at Auckland Castle in Bishop Auckland.

Gagny

In 1974, Gagny became twinned with the English towns of Sutton and Bishop Auckland

Leamside Line

The line was part of the east coast main line until 1872 when the route was bypassed by the NER's Bishop Auckland to Gateshead line and Croxdale link, which became part of the ECML.

Robert Kaye Greville

Greville was born at Bishop Auckland, Durham, but was brought up in Derbyshire as his father, Robert Greville, became the rector of the small village of Edlaston and its nearby hamlet of Wyaston.

Thermax

Based in Bishop Auckland, it became known as Thermax Interglass and is now Saint Gobain Solaglas Ltd in Eggborough.

W2W

The northerly spur passes through Hamsterley, taking two miles (3 km) more to reach the beautiful cathedral city of Durham than the easier southern spur which passes through Bishop Auckland.


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Bishop Auckland F.C.

Bishop Auckland agreed to play their football at Darlington Road, West Auckland, home of West Auckland Town for the 2008–09, 2009–10 and part of the 2010–11 seasons.

The club moved out of Kingsway with plans to move into a purpose-built stadium at Tindale Crescent near Bishop Auckland.

Harold Heslop

Heslop attended King James I Grammar School in Bishop Auckland on a scholarship until he was thirteen, then the family moved to Boulby on the north Yorkshire coast.

Henry Havelock-Allan

Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 2nd Baronet (1872–1953), British Liberal Party politician, MP for Bishop Auckland 1910–1918

Thomas Ferens

After attending Bishop Auckland private school until the age of thirteen, he found employment as a clerk in the Shildon office of the mineral department of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.