British Place Names

Stanley Burn, County Durham

Heathland beside Quaking Houses

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Quaking Houses is an old mining village in County Durham; its housing is mainly terraced. The name is suspected to derive from the locale being settled originally by Quakers.

Uploaded to Geograph by Trevor Littlewood on 28 January 2016

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