Bowes Railway 2025
Tyne & Wear
Set within the steep-sided Derwent Valley, which once hosted a world leading iron and steel industry in various forms from the 1690s up until the 1980s; in the early 18th century it was the heart of British sword making and was home to the great industrialist Ambrose Crowley.
Operator: Land of Oak & Iron Trust
Address: Spa Well Road Winlaton Mill Blaydon-on-Tyne Tyne & Wear NE21 6RU
Daily 0900-1600. Visit website or facebook for more details.
Their visitors remember the history and heritage of the area of Derwenthaugh Park when it was a working coke works.
Derwenthaugh Coke Works was a coking plant on the River Derwent near Swalwell. The works were built in 1928 on the site of the Crowley's Iron Works, which had at one time been the largest iron works in Europe. They were owned and operated by the Consett Iron Company. The coke works was closed and demolished in the late 1980s, and replaced by Derwenthaugh Park.