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Extract from the Blanchland Travel Guides:
The trans-moorland B6278, which cuts north from Weardale at Stanhope for ten extraordinarily wild miles, runs to tiny
BLANCHLAND
. Little more than a handful of ancient, lichen-stained cottages huddled round an L-shaped square, the hamlet was once the site of a Premonstratensian abbey, founded in the twelfth century. Blanchland has been preserved and protected since 1721, when Lord Crewe, the childless Bishop of Durham, bequeathed his estate to trustees on condition that they rebuilt the old conventual buildings, for Blanchland had slowly fallen into disrepair after the abbey's dissolution. The original trustees obliged and their succe...
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