English Heritage sites near North Lodge Parish
FINCHALE PRIORY
4 miles from North Lodge Parish
The very extensive remains of a 13th-century priory, founded on the site of a retired pirate's hermitage. Part of it later served as a holiday retreat for the monks of Durham Cathedral.
HYLTON CASTLE
5 miles from North Lodge Parish
The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.
ST PAUL'S MONASTERY, JARROW
8 miles from North Lodge Parish
The home of the Venerable Bede, chronicler of the beginnings of English Christianity, Jarrow has become one of the best-understood Anglo-Saxon monastic sites.
BENWELL ROMAN TEMPLE - HADRIAN'S WALL
9 miles from North Lodge Parish
The remains of a small temple to the native god 'Antenociticus', in the 'vicus' (civilian settlement) which stood outside Benwell fort.
BENWELL VALLUM CROSSING
9 miles from North Lodge Parish
A stone-built causeway, where the road from the south crossed the Vallum earthwork on its way to Benwell fort.
DENTON HALL TURRET - HADRIAN'S WALL
10 miles from North Lodge Parish
The foundations of a turret and a 65-metre (213 foot) length of Wall, along with another 60-metre length of Wall further west.
No churches found in North Lodge Parish
Pubs in North Lodge Parish
Lambton Worm
North Road, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 4AJ
(0191) 387 1162
thelambton.com
Pelaw Grange Greyhound Stadium
Drum Road, CHESTER LE STREET, DH3 2AF
(0191) 410 2141
pelawgrange.co.uk